Meaning not yet researched.
Bijan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,411 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,411 in 1991; #9,028 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bijan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,028 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #1,411.
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Bijan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,411 in 1991 · most boys in one year: 65 (1991).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Bijan, making it the 9,028th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,180 places from #7,848 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 10 boys named Bijan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,411, reached in 1991. That year also had the most boys given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #10,839 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bijan in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 6 babies. In all, 1,027 US babies have been given the name, 2.8% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 482 babies named Bijan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 40 US boys were named Bijan; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Bijon and Bejan 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bijon (100), Bejan (28).
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 Bijan 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 | — | — | 8 | #9,028 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #7,848 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #11,055 |
| 2020 | — | — | 6 | #10,778 |
| 2016 | — | — | 10 | #7,670 |
| 2015 | — | — | 6 | #10,839 |
| 2014 | — | — | 9 | #8,222 |
| 2013 | — | — | 5 | #12,379 |
| 2012 | — | — | 10 | #7,617 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #7,577 |
| 2010 | — | — | 5 | #12,465 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #9,993 |
| 2008 | — | — | 11 | #7,248 |
| 2007 | — | — | 10 | #7,659 |
| 2006 | — | — | 11 | #6,969 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,650 |
| 2004 | — | — | 26 | #3,545 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #5,916 |
| 2002 | — | — | 26 | #3,359 |
| 2001 | — | — | 27 | #3,236 |
| 2000 | — | — | 27 | #3,157 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #2,948 |
| 1998 | — | — | 33 | #2,558 |
| 1997 | — | — | 46 | #1,968 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,794 | 30 | #2,540 |
| 1995 | — | — | 42 | #1,990 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,703 | 47 | #1,825 |
| 1993 | — | — | 61 | #1,514 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,534 | 58 | #1,526 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,673 | 65 | #1,411 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,348 | 43 | #1,812 |
| 1989 | — | — | 55 | #1,495 |
| 1988 | — | — | 41 | #1,711 |
| 1987 | — | — | 27 | #2,173 |
| 1986 | — | — | 24 | #2,298 |
| 1985 | — | — | 26 | #2,121 |
| 1984 | — | — | 30 | #1,844 |
| 1983 | — | — | 25 | #2,091 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,718 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,237 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,145 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,886 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,177 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,491 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,716 |
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).