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Afan

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Afan has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2020. 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 2022, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Afan, 2022

1 in 564,000

Afan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Afan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Afan means

Afan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Afan is used in Welsh.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Afan is pronounced /ˈavan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Afan between 2020 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2022; its best national rank was #10,899 in 2022.

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 Afan?

Afan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Afan 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Afan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Afans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Afan was born before 2022 — so the typical Afan is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Afan 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
—
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 2022 (6)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,899
2022

Spellings of Afan

Afan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 21.9% against Afan'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.

Afan around the world

Where Afan 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
    2008–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • France
    2024–2024
    #5,540
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #2,855
    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.

Afan 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
—
Best rank ever
#10,899
2022
Peak year
2022
6 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Afan

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

AfaanAfaAfariSafanErfanArfanYifanRafanStafanStepfanAffanSaifanIrfanStephfanEstefanSteffanStefan

Sibling names for Afan

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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