Meaning not yet researched.
Aaryan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 74 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,279 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,279 in 2016; #2,020 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aaryan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,020 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #1,279.
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Aaryan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 74 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,279 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 142 (2016).
In 2025, 74 US boys were named Aaryan, making it the 2,020th most common boys’ name of the year, up 100 places from #2,120 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 70 boys named Aaryan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,279, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 142. For comparison, it was #1,381 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aaryan in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 16 babies. In all, 2,155 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,138 babies named Aaryan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,055 US boys were named Aaryan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 142. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,082 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aaryan ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #766 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aaron (618,857 babies since 1880), Aryan (8,854 babies since 1880), Arian (8,290 babies since 1880) and Aryn (3,373 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aaryan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 8 | #766 | #661 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,217 | #1,096 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,278 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #1,556 | #1,285 |
| California | 8 | #1,829 | #1,120 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 74 | #2,020 |
| 2024 | — | — | 70 | #2,120 |
| 2023 | — | — | 92 | #1,765 |
| 2022 | — | — | 104 | #1,652 |
| 2021 | — | — | 112 | #1,554 |
| 2020 | — | — | 93 | #1,685 |
| 2019 | — | — | 119 | #1,459 |
| 2018 | — | — | 126 | #1,396 |
| 2017 | — | — | 123 | #1,413 |
| 2016 | — | — | 142 | #1,279 |
| 2015 | — | — | 125 | #1,381 |
| 2014 | — | — | 104 | #1,536 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,600 | 106 | #1,520 |
| 2012 | — | — | 94 | #1,637 |
| 2011 | — | — | 105 | #1,516 |
| 2010 | — | — | 88 | #1,725 |
| 2009 | — | — | 67 | #2,050 |
| 2008 | — | — | 75 | #1,916 |
| 2007 | — | — | 69 | #2,016 |
| 2006 | — | — | 63 | #2,082 |
| 2005 | — | — | 53 | #2,237 |
| 2004 | — | — | 53 | #2,193 |
| 2003 | — | — | 47 | #2,269 |
| 2002 | — | — | 29 | #3,095 |
| 2001 | — | — | 16 | #4,676 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).