Meaning not yet researched.
Aryan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 275 in 2025. Its best rank was #613 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #613 in 2007; #872 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Aryan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#872 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #613.
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Aryan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 275 boys in 2025. Peak: #613 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 406 (2007).
In 2025, 275 US boys were named Aryan, making it the 872nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 87 places from #785 in 2024. That is 45 fewer than the 320 boys named Aryan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #613, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 406. For comparison, it was #699 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aryan in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 10 babies. In all, 8,854 US babies have been given the name, 8.4% of them girls and 92% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,626 babies named Aryan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,143 US boys were named Aryan; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 355. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,211 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aryan ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #429 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ryan (991,747 babies since 1880), Arian (8,290 babies since 1880), Arjan (1,001 babies since 1880) and Aron (21,590 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ariann, Aryaan and Arrian are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Ariann (482), Aryaan (241), Arrian (118), Aryian (86), Aryann (65), Aryanne (61), Arihan (42), Ayrian (40), Arynne (35), Aariyan (27), Aurian (22), Ahryan (11), and more.
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 Aryan 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 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 18 | #429 | #368 |
| California | 56 | #544 | #515 |
| Maryland | 7 | #635 | #452 |
| Illinois | 14 | #636 | #508 |
| Texas | 46 | #649 | #623 |
| Washington | 9 | #692 | #760 |
| New York | 21 | #694 | #552 |
| Georgia | 13 | #713 | #547 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #795 | #562 |
| Virginia | 7 | #882 | #428 |
| Florida | 15 | #913 | #720 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #921 | #752 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #944 | #1,001 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,022 | #910 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,196 | 275 | #872 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,634 | 320 | #785 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,108 | 355 | #742 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,600 | 302 | #820 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,413 | 312 | #788 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,024 | 271 | #841 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,325 | 342 | #714 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,834 | 300 | #773 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,823 | 321 | #742 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,438 | 345 | #708 |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,742 | 360 | #699 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,639 | 317 | #747 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,082 | 342 | #698 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,502 | 352 | #671 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,756 | 342 | #689 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,203 | 326 | #714 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,495 | 298 | #762 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,659 | 355 | #680 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,249 | 406 | #613 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,171 | 326 | #689 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,560 | 307 | #681 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,998 | 321 | #644 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,336 | 240 | #746 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,425 | 188 | #872 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,386 | 114 | #1,191 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,966 | 39 | #2,430 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,287 | 37 | #2,404 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,925 | 28 | #2,857 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,397 | 28 | #2,754 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,757 | 27 | #2,753 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,128 | 24 | #2,926 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,354 | 20 | #3,336 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,789 | 28 | #2,582 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,586 | 20 | #3,230 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,359 | 19 | #3,226 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,552 | 23 | #2,784 |
| 1989 | — | — | 17 | #3,332 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,962 | 9 | #4,814 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,497 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,643 | 9 | #4,484 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,068 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,389 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,539 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,544 | 6 | #5,535 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,879 | 5 | #5,855 |
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).