Afshin
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Afshin has been given to 52 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 1972, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Afshin, 1994
1 in 743,000
Afshin over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Afshin?
Afshin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1994
- 1 in 743,000
- 5 of 3,715,972 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 386,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1994
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 515,144 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Afshin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 515,144 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Afshin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Afshins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Afshin was born before 1984 — so the typical Afshin is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 65.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 52
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 65.4% of all recorded uses (34).
Is Afshin 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 1972 (8)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.8% average annual change
Spellings of Afshin
Afshin is not the most common spelling — Austin is, with 99.1% against Afshin's 0.01%.
Where Afshin is used
Across 1910–2025, Afshin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Afshin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Afshin around the world
Where Afshin 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.
- South Australia1994–1994#531in 1994
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Afshin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Afshin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Afshin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.