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Arslan

#4,410 in 2025Boys' name

Lion

Arslan has been given to 356 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #4,410 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Arslan, 2025

1 in 144,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arslan: meaning, origin, and history

Lion

Proto-Turkic

What Arslan means

Arslan means “lion”, associated with aslan.

Origin, language, and formation

Arslan is used in Turkish. Its origins include Proto-Turkic.

Arslan comes through Ottoman Turkish آرسلان.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 356 boys were recorded with the name Arslan between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,696 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,553 in 2020 to #4,410 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,651 in 2015 to #4,410 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 Arslan?

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
#4,410
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arslan 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 Arslan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arslans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arslan was born before 2015 — so the typical Arslan is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
34.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
356
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2020s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (124).

Is Arslan 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
−714
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,143
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,241
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.7%
Peak was 2024 (30)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,696
2024

Spellings of Arslan

Arslan is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 62.7% against Arslan's 0.06%.

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 Arslan is used

Across 1910–2025, Arslan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 391,878 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Arslan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arslan around the world

Where Arslan 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
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    1982–2025
    #1,933
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #589
    in 2004

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

Arslan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,410
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,143
Best rank ever
#3,696
2024
Peak year
2024
30 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
356
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Arslan

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

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Sibling names for Arslan

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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