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Ajan

Boys' name

Form of Ayan

Ajan has been given to 82 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 12 recorded.

Babies named Ajan, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ajan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ayan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ajan means

Ajan is a form of Ayan.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ajan is used in Albanian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Ajan is a form of Ayan. Ayan has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ayan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 82 boys were recorded with the name Ajan between 2010 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2015; its best national rank was #6,678 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.

How common is Ajan?

Ajan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ajan 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ajan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ajans were born

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

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
73.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
82
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 73.2% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Ajan 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2015 (12)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,678
2015

Spellings of Ajan

Ajan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 19.9% against Ajan'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.

Ajan around the world

Where Ajan 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
    2004–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2008–2025
    #5,385
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2016
    #2,748
    in 2016

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.

Ajan 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
#6,678
2015
Peak year
2015
12 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
82
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ajan

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

AjaiAjaxAjaYojanAjamuAjakAjaeAjahniSajanPujanTejanAjayiSujanAjayAjaniTrejanSaajanBejanElijanBojanTijanAnjanBijanArjan

Sibling names for Ajan

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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