Meaning not yet researched.
Ayan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 338 in 2025. Its best rank was #762 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 94% of babies named Ayan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#762 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Ayan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 338 boys in 2025. Peak: #762 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 338 (2025).
In 2025, 338 US boys were named Ayan, making it the 762nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 115 places from #877 in 2024. That is 63 more than the 275 boys named Ayan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #762, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 338. For comparison, it was #999 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 23 US girls were named Ayan, making it the 5,429th most common girls’ name of the year, up 215 places from #5,644 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 22 girls named Ayan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,994, reached in 2000. The most girls given the name in a single year was 35, in 2016. For comparison, it was #6,274 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ayan in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 4,942 US babies have been given the name, 17% of them girls and 83% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,102 babies named Ayan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,476 US boys were named Ayan; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 338. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,053 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ayan ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #352 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ann (471,625 babies since 1880), Ayaan (9,154 babies since 1880), Aayan (2,676 babies since 1880) and An (2,519 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aayon, Ahiyan and Aiyon 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: Aayon (10), Ahiyan (5), Aiyon (5).
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 Ayan 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 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 23 | #352 | #517 |
| Michigan | 19 | #447 | — |
| New York | 37 | #455 | #611 |
| Maryland | 10 | #477 | #644 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #489 | #460 |
| Illinois | 19 | #515 | #750 |
| California | 49 | #602 | #848 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #608 | #589 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #627 | #513 |
| Georgia | 14 | #675 | #1,228 |
| Washington | 9 | #693 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #716 | — |
| Texas | 36 | #751 | #1,038 |
| Ohio | 11 | #755 | #1,223 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #946 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,050 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,063 | #1,710 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,429 | 338 | #762 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,644 | 275 | #877 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,146 | 284 | #851 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,496 | 282 | #857 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,424 | 241 | #937 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,187 | 246 | #907 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,667 | 217 | #981 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,904 | 183 | #1,079 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,231 | 234 | #911 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,172 | 176 | #1,110 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,274 | 204 | #999 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,790 | 207 | #996 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,256 | 174 | #1,075 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,509 | 118 | #1,408 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,368 | 149 | #1,183 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,205 | 145 | #1,219 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,405 | 128 | #1,347 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,307 | 93 | #1,656 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,550 | 104 | #1,516 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,942 | 78 | #1,771 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,597 | 35 | #2,963 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,776 | 37 | #2,790 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,690 | 22 | #3,842 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,195 | 32 | #2,890 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,854 | 18 | #4,315 |
| 2000 | 31 | #3,994 | 14 | #5,063 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,326 | 12 | #5,345 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,391 | 6 | #8,579 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,657 | 5 | #9,396 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,320 | 8 | #6,549 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,996 | — | — |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,660 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,081 | 5 | #8,807 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,578 | — | — |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,349 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,179 | 5 | #8,221 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,382 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,575 | — | — |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,540 |
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).