Aslan

Last seen for girls in 2021 at #15,251 · #860 for boys in 2025, 280 births
Given to boys 95.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
2025 · 280 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,720
since 1979

Aslan over time

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Rank among boys' names. Aslan has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201979boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#860280
2024#1,050210
2023#1,172175
2022#1,353138
2021#15,2515#1,72194
2020#1,99671
2019#11,3568#2,22862
2018#11,4278#2,02971
2017#14,1246#2,18661
2016#12,8767#2,55149
2015#14,4826#2,86441
2014#14,5586#2,80542
2013#2,99837
2012#3,17935
2011#13,3477#2,85241
2010#14,9596#3,45331
2009#3,63929
2008#3,10337
2007#12,6768#3,13536
2006#15,1526#2,39851
2005#4,63118
2004#6,97610
2003#8,6437
2002#15,4325#7,0559
2001#12,0567#6,9359
2000#7,4168
1999#5,65611
1998#5,46611
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1996#6,4968
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First appearance
1979

The first year at least five boys were named Aslan! It came in at #4,842, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1981, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Aslan
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 190 spots since 2024 (#1,050#860)
  • 1,136 spots since 2020 (#1,996#860)
  • 2,004 spots since 2015 (#2,864#860)
  • Biggest jump: 190 spots in 2025 (#1,050#860)
Rise & fade · boys
46 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1979
  • Peaked 2025 at #860 (280 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 6,100
  • Highest: 1 in 6,100 boys born in 2025 were named Aslan (0.02%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 56.3% of all boys named Aslan (968) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s7#4,842 (1979)#4,842
1980s14#4,495 (1980)#5,057
1990s47#5,466 (1998)#7,049
2000s214#2,398 (2006)#5,393
2010s470#2,029 (2018)#2,715
2020s968#860 (2025)#1,359

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Aslan in 1979

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#4,842
7 births · 1 in 245,934 boys

Top boys' names in 1979

  1. #1Michael67,713
  2. #2Christopher50,659
  3. #3Jason50,369
  4. #4David42,053
  5. #5James39,351
  6. #6Matthew35,621
  7. #7John35,410
  8. #8Robert34,015
  9. #9Joshua31,120
  10. #10Brian28,659
  11. #4,842Aslan7
More about 1979

boys

1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 245,934 of them was named Aslan, which outranked 31.5% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aslan
  1. #4,403Zavier8
  2. #4,403Zeferino8
  3. #4,403Zion8
  4. #4,842Aslan7
  5. #4,842Abasi7
  6. #4,842Abdiel7
  7. #4,842Abed7
  8. #5,355Aasim6
  9. #5,355Abdallah6
  10. #5,355Abdula6

Tied with 512 names at #4,842; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1978
Risers
  1. 1,228Tyrel#2,134#906
  2. 471Jace#1,186#715
  3. 387Chaz#1,371#984
  4. 311Tyrell#1,051#740
  5. 308Frederic#1,203#895
Fallers
  1. 1,230Dequan#927#2,157
  2. 641Rahsaan#869#1,510
  3. 446Chip#989#1,435
  4. 308Rashaun#996#1,304
  5. 307Kenya#749#1,056

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1979