Meaning not yet researched.
Jan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 47 in 2025. Its best rank was #247 in 1944.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #247 in 1944; #2,731 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Jan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,731 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1944, at #247.
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Jan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 47 boys in 2025. Peak: #247 in 1944 · most boys in one year: 768 (1954).
In 2025, 47 US boys were named Jan, making it the 2,731st most common boys’ name of the year, down 533 places from #2,198 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 66 boys named Jan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #247, reached in 1944. The most boys given the name in a single year was 768, in 1954. For comparison, it was #1,685 in 2015 and #267 in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Jan, making it the 15,898th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #131, reached in 1954. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,201, in 1956. For comparison, it was #12,303 in 2015 and #166 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jan in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1902 with 5 babies. In all, 76,934 US babies have been given the name, 71% of them girls and 29% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 31,892 babies named Jan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 664 US boys were named Jan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 84. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,342 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jan ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,715 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include John (5,204,377 babies since 1880), Jack (759,677 babies since 1880), Joan (488,939 babies since 1880) and Jean (483,475 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jayon, Jahan and Jayan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jayon (948), Jahan (877), Jayan (380), Jaion (361), Jauan (196), Jahon (172), Jayin (79), Jaeon (58), Jahin (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 Jan in the open dataset we use.
Jan is listed as a nickname for Janet, Janice.
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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,715 | #1,222 |
| California | 5 | #2,609 | #1,410 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,898 | 47 | #2,731 |
| 2024 | — | — | 66 | #2,198 |
| 2023 | — | — | 69 | #2,118 |
| 2022 | — | — | 68 | #2,157 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,260 | 62 | #2,262 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,139 | 69 | #2,056 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,561 | 54 | #2,472 |
| 2018 | — | — | 82 | #1,843 |
| 2017 | — | — | 63 | #2,158 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,331 | 84 | #1,804 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,303 | 93 | #1,685 |
| 2014 | — | — | 84 | #1,787 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,765 | 112 | #1,469 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,702 | 107 | #1,505 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,950 | 116 | #1,426 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,137 | 135 | #1,286 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,946 | 160 | #1,143 |
| 2008 | — | — | 206 | #971 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,315 | 189 | #1,014 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,925 | 279 | #758 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,436 | 215 | #856 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,069 | 235 | #776 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,979 | 191 | #885 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,320 | 175 | #920 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,102 | 214 | #790 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,314 | 192 | #837 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,742 | 107 | #1,198 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,736 | 81 | #1,412 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,295 | 77 | #1,416 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,377 | 101 | #1,162 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,924 | 107 | #1,100 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,332 | 105 | #1,098 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,775 | 95 | #1,152 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,716 | 95 | #1,131 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,858 | 101 | #1,084 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,580 | 126 | #915 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,492 | 102 | #1,019 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,875 | 109 | #915 |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,637 | 101 | #940 |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,677 | 117 | #837 |
| 1985 | 90 | #1,415 | 131 | #775 |
| 1984 | 124 | #1,113 | 145 | #723 |
| 1983 | 143 | #1,001 | 113 | #823 |
| 1982 | 163 | #926 | 143 | #726 |
| 1981 | 163 | #921 | 118 | #809 |
| 1980 | 186 | #841 | 114 | #824 |
| 1979 | 197 | #800 | 132 | #756 |
| 1978 | 245 | #657 | 132 | #733 |
| 1977 | 231 | #679 | 112 | #807 |
| 1976 | 254 | #617 | 146 | #685 |
| 1975 | 262 | #606 | 97 | #848 |
| 1974 | 324 | #519 | 101 | #798 |
| 1973 | 295 | #559 | 124 | #724 |
| 1972 | 377 | #476 | 128 | #710 |
| 1971 | 412 | #477 | 143 | #693 |
| 1970 | 498 | #442 | 163 | #636 |
| 1969 | 569 | #398 | 163 | #611 |
| 1968 | 655 | #344 | 178 | #569 |
| 1967 | 746 | #317 | 178 | #560 |
| 1966 | 842 | #304 | 201 | #536 |
| 1965 | 937 | #285 | 219 | #519 |
| 1964 | 1,259 | #249 | 215 | #536 |
| 1963 | 1,562 | #218 | 229 | #526 |
| 1962 | 1,778 | #203 | 296 | #464 |
| 1961 | 2,032 | #188 | 348 | #426 |
| 1960 | 2,447 | #166 | 370 | #412 |
| 1959 | 2,587 | #161 | 392 | #402 |
| 1958 | 2,631 | #153 | 429 | #375 |
| 1957 | 2,991 | #140 | 430 | #371 |
| 1956 | 3,201 | #136 | 503 | #331 |
| 1955 | 2,768 | #138 | 655 | #279 |
| 1954 | 2,993 | #131 | 768 | #252 |
| 1953 | 2,607 | #140 | 580 | #292 |
| 1952 | 2,481 | #143 | 626 | #275 |
| 1951 | 2,185 | #145 | 732 | #248 |
| 1950 | 1,725 | #166 | 608 | #267 |
| 1949 | 1,522 | #180 | 551 | #289 |
| 1948 | 1,262 | #206 | 640 | #257 |
| 1947 | 1,358 | #196 | 676 | #254 |
| 1946 | 1,149 | #210 | 566 | #266 |
| 1945 | 864 | #221 | 496 | #263 |
| 1944 | 611 | #279 | 544 | #247 |
| 1943 | 641 | #278 | 551 | #256 |
| 1942 | 534 | #294 | 512 | #263 |
| 1941 | 445 | #306 | 459 | #259 |
| 1940 | 331 | #356 | 349 | #299 |
| 1939 | 304 | #378 | 308 | #315 |
| 1938 | 269 | #408 | 317 | #308 |
| 1937 | 239 | #418 | 245 | #348 |
| 1936 | 229 | #429 | 272 | #332 |
| 1935 | 188 | #465 | 196 | #389 |
| 1934 | 160 | #509 | 145 | #469 |
| 1933 | 115 | #608 | 86 | #625 |
| 1932 | 119 | #603 | 48 | #945 |
| 1931 | 104 | #650 | 49 | #930 |
| 1930 | 60 | #945 | 29 | #1,353 |
| 1929 | 46 | #1,084 | 28 | #1,356 |
| 1928 | 50 | #1,064 | 33 | #1,262 |
| 1927 | 49 | #1,094 | 23 | #1,620 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,461 | 14 | #2,251 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,482 | 26 | #1,475 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,486 | 14 | #2,289 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,648 | 21 | #1,722 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,626 | 21 | #1,727 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,743 | 18 | #1,945 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,036 | 29 | #1,364 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,722 | 24 | #1,508 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,919 | 33 | #1,224 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,807 | 22 | #1,560 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,182 | 18 | #1,730 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,610 | 22 | #1,485 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,751 | 21 | #1,321 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,435 | 11 | #1,740 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,242 | 8 | #1,963 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 1910 | — | — | 9 | #1,160 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,373 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,332 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,221 |
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).