Meaning not yet researched.
Ayaan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 664 in 2025. Its best rank was #460 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #460 in 2020; #465 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Ayaan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#465 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #460.
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Ayaan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 664 boys in 2025. Peak: #460 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 664 (2025).
In 2025, 664 US boys were named Ayaan, making it the 465th most common boys’ name of the year, up 54 places from #519 in 2024. That is 74 more than the 590 boys named Ayaan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #460, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 664, in 2025. For comparison, it was #637 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ayaan in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 5 babies. In all, 9,154 US babies have been given the name, 2.7% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,365 babies named Ayaan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,593 US boys were named Ayaan; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 664. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,572 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ayaan ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #143 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ayan (4,942 babies since 1880), Aayan (2,676 babies since 1880) and Ahaan (1,016 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aahan, Ahyan and Ayyan are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aahan (586), Ahyan (339), Ayyan (212), Ayhan (109), Aahaan (77), Aayaan (68), Aiyan (46), Ahyaan (10), Ahian (6).
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 Ayaan 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 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 7 | #143 | — |
| New Jersey | 41 | #233 | #236 |
| New York | 74 | #261 | #320 |
| Illinois | 37 | #290 | #488 |
| Virginia | 25 | #329 | #429 |
| Maryland | 16 | #330 | #422 |
| Massachusetts | 15 | #347 | #473 |
| California | 100 | #349 | #497 |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #363 | #618 |
| Washington | 19 | #383 | #601 |
| Ohio | 27 | #396 | #844 |
| Texas | 87 | #407 | #624 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #440 | — |
| Georgia | 24 | #452 | #500 |
| North Carolina | 21 | #485 | #1,004 |
| Arizona | 13 | #529 | #892 |
| Colorado | 10 | #541 | — |
| Florida | 30 | #573 | #977 |
| Indiana | 11 | #586 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #627 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #652 | — |
| Michigan | 10 | #721 | #985 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #792 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #793 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,049 | #631 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,583 | 664 | #465 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,822 | 590 | #519 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,119 | 586 | #512 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,609 | 528 | #562 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,309 | 570 | #514 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,689 | 645 | #460 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,511 | 553 | #516 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,921 | 530 | #532 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,378 | 503 | #551 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,940 | 424 | #630 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,015 | 416 | #637 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,113 | 485 | #574 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,364 | 388 | #638 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,812 | 355 | #665 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,103 | 322 | #710 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,878 | 296 | #759 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,110 | 265 | #827 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,178 | 226 | #912 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,768 | 182 | #1,031 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,788 | 122 | #1,341 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,742 | 53 | #2,239 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,934 | 122 | #1,235 |
| 2003 | — | — | 25 | #3,541 |
| 2002 | — | — | 18 | #4,335 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,726 | 17 | #4,499 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,218 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,660 | — | — |
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).