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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 345,292 of them was named Yan, which outranked 13.8% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,546 names at #15,902; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 52,884 of them was named Yan, which outranked 77.2% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,193Vedansh36
- #3,193Whitman36
- #3,193Zian36
- #3,249Yan35
- #3,249Abubakr35
- #3,249Affan35
- #3,249Amaree35
- #3,312Aasir34
- #3,312Able34
- #3,312Agam34
Tied with 62 names at #3,249; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.