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Affan

#4,399 in 2025Boys' name

Chaste, modest, pure

Affan has been given to 575 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #4,399 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Affan, 2025

1 in 144,000

Affan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Affan: meaning, origin, and history

Chaste, modest, pure

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Affan means

Affan means “chaste, modest, pure”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 575 boys were recorded with the name Affan between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,421 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,809 in 2020 to #4,399 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,966 in 2015 to #4,399 in 2025.

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.

How common is Affan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,399
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Affan 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 2025 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Affan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Affans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Affan was born before 2017 — so the typical Affan is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
575
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.6% of all recorded uses (308).

Is Affan 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
−79
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−590
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,433
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.8%
Peak was 2019 (55)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,421
2019

Spellings of Affan

Affan is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 52.4% against Affan's 0.08%.

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.

Where Affan is used

Across 1910–2025, Affan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 447,048 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Affan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Affan around the world

Where Affan 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
    2001–2025
    #1,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2013
    #687
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2015–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    2009–2025
    #4,251
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Affan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,399
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 590
Best rank ever
#2,421
2019
Peak year
2019
55 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
575
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Affan

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

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Sibling names for Affan

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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