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Arjan

#1,492 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Arjan has been given to 1,001 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #1,492 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 118 recorded.

Babies named Arjan, 2025

1 in 28,100

Arjan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arjan: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arjan means

Arjan has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Arjan

A separate documented entry treats Arjan as a form of Adrian. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Arjan as a variant of Arian. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Arjan is used in Albanian and Dutch.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Arjan is pronounced /ˈɑr.jɑn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,001 boys were recorded with the name Arjan between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 118 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,492 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,805 in 2020 to #1,492 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,785 in 2015 to #1,492 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 Arjan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 28,100
118 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 14,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,492
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,475 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arjan 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,475 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arjan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arjans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arjan was born before 2018 — so the typical Arjan is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
45.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,001
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (455).

Is Arjan 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
+117
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,313
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,293
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.21×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (118)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,492
2025

Spellings of Arjan

Arjan is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 31.3% against Arjan's 0.03%.

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 Arjan is used

Across 1910–2025, Arjan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 141,635 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Indiana1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 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. Arjan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arjan around the world

Where Arjan 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
    1996–2025
    #351
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    2017–2025
    #6,580
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #102
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2003
    #588
    in 2003

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.

Arjan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,492
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,313
Best rank ever
#1,492
2025
Peak year
2025
118 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,001
Count in 2025
118

Names similar to Arjan

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

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Sibling names for Arjan

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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