Afnan
#3,389 for girls in 2025, 45 births · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to girls 77.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 45 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 670since 1985
Afnan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,389 | 45 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #3,459 | 45 | #6,832 | 12 |
| 2023 | #4,114 | 35 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #4,793 | 28 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #5,619 | 22 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 | #5,789 | 15 |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | — | |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | — | |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | — | |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | — | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | — | |
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| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | — | |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | — | |
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| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Afnan! It came in at #10,677, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1987, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Afnan
- 70 spots since 2024 (#3,459 → #3,389)
- 2,461 spots since 2020 (#5,850 → #3,389)
- 1,592 spots since 2015 (#4,981 → #3,389)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2025 at #3,389 (45 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 35,717 girls born in 2025 were named Afnan (0.00%)
- 33.3% of all girls named Afnan (223) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 12 | #9,244 (1988) | #9,961 |
| 1990s | 79 | #5,424 (1999) | #8,987 |
| 2000s | 141 | #6,811 (2009) | #8,110 |
| 2010s | 223 | #4,546 (2019) | #5,982 |
| 2020s | 215 | #3,389 (2025) | #4,203 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Afnan in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 35,717 of them was named Afnan, which outranked 80.4% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #3,342Zayleigh46
- #3,342Zorah46
- #3,342Zyana46
- #3,389Afnan45
- #3,389Aaliya45
- #3,389Aanvi45
- #3,389Acelyn45
- #3,459Airis44
- #3,459Aitanna44
- #3,459Aja44
Tied with 69 names at #3,389; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 100,475 of them was named Afnan, which outranked 61.2% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #5,208Zias18
- #5,208Zymier18
- #5,208Zyren18
- #5,399Afnan17
- #5,399Aaryav17
- #5,399Aasim17
- #5,399Acesyn17
- #5,608Aarvin16
- #5,608Abishai16
- #5,608Abu16
Tied with 208 names at #5,399; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.