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Alihan

#5,214 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Alihan has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 2018. In 2025 it ranked #5,214 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Alihan, 2025

1 in 184,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alihan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alihan means

Alihan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Alihan is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 74 boys were recorded with the name Alihan between 2018 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,214 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,117 in 2020 to #5,214 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alihan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,214
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alihan 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alihan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alihans were born

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

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
86.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
74
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 86.5% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Alihan 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
+3,804
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,903
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (18)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
60.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,214
2025

Spellings of Alihan

Alihan is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 57.4% against Alihan'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.

Alihan around the world

Where Alihan 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
    2012–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2025
    #2,865
    in 2025

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

Alihan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,214
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,903
Best rank ever
#5,214
2025
Peak year
2025
18 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
74
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Alihan

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

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Sibling names for Alihan

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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