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Aban

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Aban has been given to 44 babies in the U.S. since 2010. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2015, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Aban, 2024

1 in 669,000

Aban over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aban: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aban means

Aban is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Aban is used in Atayal and Lun Bawang.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 44 boys were recorded with the name Aban between 2010 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2015; its best national rank was #8,741 in 2015.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aban?

Aban had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aban sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aban. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aban was born before 2015 — so the typical Aban is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
88.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
44
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 88.6% of all recorded uses (39).

Is Aban rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2015 (8)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,741
2015

Spellings of Aban

Aban is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 20.7% against Aban's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Aban around the world

Where Aban ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    2021–2025
    #5,881
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aban by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,741
2015
Peak year
2015
8 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
44
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aban

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AbasAbassAbadAbasiAbaanObanSabanOrbanJobanAbaasCubanAbaBobanStebanEbanAabanLibanAbaddonShubanRubanDubanQubanShabanAbanoub

Sibling names for Aban

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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