Yan
Last seen for girls in 2017 at #15,902 · #2,363 for boys in 2025, 58 births
Given to boys 90.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 58 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 986since 1971
Yan 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 | — | #2,363 | 58 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,873 | 44 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,848 | 44 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,879 | 28 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,118 | 25 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,020 | 25 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,230 | 24 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,301 | 34 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #3,249 | 35 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #3,596 | 30 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | — | #3,617 | 29 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,463 | 21 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,131 | 24 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,885 | 26 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #3,812 | 27 |
| 2009 | — | #3,721 | 28 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,921 | 26 | |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #3,227 | 33 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #3,389 | 29 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #3,534 | 26 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #3,366 | 27 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #3,349 | 26 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #3,512 | 24 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | — | #5,317 | 12 | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | — | #3,549 | 19 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,771 | 9 | |
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| 1990 | — | #4,407 | 12 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,618 | 15 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | — | #3,072 | 16 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,005 | 16 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,599 | 12 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,956 | 15 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,412 | 12 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,256 | 13 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,357 | 12 | |
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| 1977 | — | #4,582 | 7 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yan! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Yan
- 510 spots since 2024 (#2,873 → #2,363)
- 1,657 spots since 2020 (#4,020 → #2,363)
- 2,695 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #2,363)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2025 at #2,363 (58 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 29,450 boys born in 2025 were named Yan (0.00%)
- 27.2% of all boys named Yan (268) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 24 | #3,357 (1979) | #4,282 |
| 1980s | 121 | #2,956 (1984) | #3,849 |
| 1990s | 90 | #3,549 (1996) | #5,306 |
| 2000s | 259 | #3,227 (2006) | #3,729 |
| 2010s | 268 | #3,249 (2017) | #3,934 |
| 2020s | 224 | #2,363 (2025) | #3,350 |
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.
Yan in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 360,125 of them was named Yan, which outranked 14.6% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,626 names at #15,352; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 80,953 of them was named Yan, which outranked 71.5% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,410Yousif25
- #3,410Zac25
- #3,410Zavien25
- #3,512Yan24
- #3,512Adarsh24
- #3,512Ahren24
- #3,512Alexandra24
- #3,617Aboubacar23
- #3,617Acxel23
- #3,617Ahmaad23
Tied with 104 names at #3,512; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.