Meaning not yet researched.
An: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,393 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,393 in 2015; #3,983 in 2025. About 59% of babies named An in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,983 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #3,393.
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An: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,393 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 47 (2015).
In 2025, 36 US girls were named An, making it the 3,983rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 408 places from #4,391 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 32 girls named An in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,393, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 47. For comparison, it was #3,393 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 25 US boys were named An, making it the 4,142nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 187 places from #4,329 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 24 boys named An in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,975, reached in 1985. The most boys given the name in a single year was 32, in 2014. For comparison, it was #4,186 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list An in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 6 babies. In all, 2,519 US babies have been given the name, 55% of them girls and 45% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 618 babies named An.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 348 US girls were named An; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 46. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,646 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ann (471,625 babies since 1880), Ani (3,188 babies since 1880), Anne (325,954 babies since 1880) and Ayan (4,942 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 An in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,983 | 25 | #4,142 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,391 | 24 | #4,329 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,768 | 22 | #4,614 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,303 | 21 | #4,711 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,246 | 18 | #5,121 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,015 | 26 | #3,922 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,442 | 28 | #3,800 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,681 | 30 | #3,610 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,588 | 29 | #3,680 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,418 | 27 | #3,886 |
| 2015 | 47 | #3,393 | 24 | #4,186 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,362 | 32 | #3,378 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,341 | 26 | #3,868 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,719 | 17 | #5,264 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,926 | 23 | #4,231 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,415 | 16 | #5,495 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,948 | 16 | #5,569 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,022 | 18 | #5,075 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,572 | 26 | #3,901 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,724 | 17 | #5,086 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,592 | 26 | #3,625 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,829 | 21 | #4,136 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,316 | 26 | #3,447 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,460 | 24 | #3,559 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,842 | 17 | #4,486 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,803 | 24 | #3,429 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,641 | 16 | #4,349 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,805 | 29 | #2,789 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,021 | 32 | #2,502 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,590 | 24 | #3,025 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,854 | 23 | #3,025 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,691 | 29 | #2,557 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,781 | 23 | #2,946 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,506 | 28 | #2,536 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,446 | 24 | #2,755 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,068 | 21 | #2,956 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,787 | 21 | #2,909 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,178 | 25 | #2,369 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,630 | 25 | #2,273 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,196 | 23 | #2,366 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,625 | 29 | #1,975 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,532 | 25 | #2,099 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,556 | 25 | #2,088 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,726 | 24 | #2,166 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,538 | 16 | #2,783 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,337 | 15 | #2,968 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,342 | 15 | #2,904 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,406 | 8 | #4,165 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,912 | 8 | #4,182 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,063 | 8 | #4,028 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,868 | 7 | #4,336 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,506 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,833 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,721 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,639 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,124 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,938 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,751 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,849 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,437 | — | — |
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).