Ayan
#5,410 for girls in 2025, 23 births · #762 for boys in 2025, 338 births
Given to boys 82.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 338 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,091since 1975
Ayan 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 | #5,410 | 23 | #762 | 338 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 | #877 | 275 |
| 2023 | #5,126 | 25 | #851 | 284 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 | #857 | 282 |
| 2021 | #4,413 | 31 | #937 | 241 |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 | #907 | 246 |
| 2019 | #4,653 | 29 | #981 | 217 |
| 2018 | #4,889 | 27 | #1,079 | 183 |
| 2017 | #4,220 | 34 | #910 | 234 |
| 2016 | #4,157 | 35 | #1,110 | 176 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 | #998 | 204 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #996 | 207 |
| 2013 | #4,243 | 34 | #1,075 | 174 |
| 2012 | #4,486 | 32 | #1,407 | 118 |
| 2011 | #6,335 | 20 | #1,183 | 149 |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 | #1,219 | 145 |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 | #1,347 | 128 |
| 2008 | #5,279 | 27 | #1,655 | 93 |
| 2007 | #5,526 | 25 | #1,516 | 104 |
| 2006 | #5,906 | 22 | #1,769 | 78 |
| 2005 | #4,581 | 29 | #2,960 | 35 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | #2,788 | 37 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | #3,838 | 22 |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 | #2,882 | 32 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 | #4,302 | 18 |
| 2000 | #3,983 | 31 | #5,040 | 14 |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | — | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #8,117 | 5 |
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| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ayan! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1990, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ayan
- 115 spots since 2024 (#877 → #762)
- 145 spots since 2020 (#907 → #762)
- 236 spots since 2015 (#998 → #762)
- Biggest jump: 200 spots in 2017 (#1,110 → #910)
- Biggest drop: 169 spots in 2018 (#910 → #1,079)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2025 at #762 (338 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2019–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,053 boys born in 2025 were named Ayan (0.02%)
- 44.2% of all boys named Ayan (1,807) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2003, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,464 (1975) | #5,464 |
| 1980s | 5 | #7,270 (1988) | #7,270 |
| 1990s | 47 | #5,317 (1999) | #7,664 |
| 2000s | 561 | #1,347 (2009) | #2,810 |
| 2010s | 1,807 | #910 (2017) | #1,096 |
| 2020s | 1,666 | #762 (2025) | #865 |
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.
Ayan in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 57,875 of them was named Ayan, which outranked 74.2% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,546Zahraa30
- #4,546Zerenity30
- #4,546Zuzanna30
- #4,653Ayan29
- #4,653Aasiyah29
- #4,653Adaiah29
- #4,653Addisen29
- #4,773Adalena28
- #4,773Adanna28
- #4,773Aeryn28
Tied with 119 names at #4,653; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 8,268 of them was named Ayan, which outranked 93.1% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).