Bayan
#2,099 for girls in 2025, 89 births · Last seen for boys in 2021 at #12,146
Given to girls 90.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 89 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,152since 1988
Bayan 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 | #2,099 | 89 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,347 | 78 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,181 | 51 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,689 | 64 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,435 | 45 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #2,416 | 72 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #3,085 | 52 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,656 | 42 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,069 | 36 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,178 | 35 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,353 | 33 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #6,641 | 19 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #5,891 | 23 | — | |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,358 | 33 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,949 | 26 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #5,254 | 22 | — | |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #4,636 | 23 | — | |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,677 | 16 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | — | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bayan! It came in at #10,386, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1990, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
See more about Bayan
- 248 spots since 2024 (#2,347 → #2,099)
- 317 spots since 2020 (#2,416 → #2,099)
- 1,970 spots since 2015 (#4,069 → #2,099)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2025 at #2,099 (89 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,059 girls born in 2025 were named Bayan (0.01%)
- 34.6% of all girls named Bayan (399) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1987, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 15 | #8,037 (1989) | #9,212 |
| 1990s | 154 | #4,636 (1998) | #6,311 |
| 2000s | 227 | #4,358 (2006) | #5,712 |
| 2010s | 357 | #3,085 (2019) | #4,350 |
| 2020s | 399 | #2,099 (2025) | #2,695 |
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.
Bayan in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 296,809 of them was named Bayan, which outranked 25.2% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,244Zinnia7
- #9,244Zuleyma7
- #9,244Zykia7
- #10,386Bayan6
- #10,386Aasia6
- #10,386Abbee6
- #10,386Abeer6
- #11,798Aaliya5
- #11,798Aariel5
- #11,798Abbigayle5
Tied with 1,411 names at #10,386; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 319,047 of them was named Bayan, which outranked 24.4% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).