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Aslan

#860 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Lion

Aslan has been given to 1,810 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #860 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 280 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Aslan, 2025

1 in 11,800

Aslan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Aslan over time

In 2025, Aslan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19792025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Aslan: meaning, origin, and history

Lion

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aslan means

Aslan means “lion”, associated with aslan.

Origin, language, and formation

Aslan is used in Turkish.

Aslan comes through Ottoman Turkish آصلان.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,720 boys were recorded with the name Aslan between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 280 in 2025; its best national rank was #860 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,001 in 2020 to #860 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,866 in 2015 to #860 in 2025.

In the United States, 90 girls were recorded with the name Aslan between 1997 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2007; its best national rank was #11,479 in 2019.

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 Aslan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,800
280 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,100
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#860
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,208 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aslan 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,208 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aslan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aslans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aslan was born before 2021 — so the typical Aslan is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
56.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,720
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 56.3% of all recorded uses (968).

Is Aslan 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
+190
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,141
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,006
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
6.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (280)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#860
2025

Spellings of Aslan

Aslan is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 18.9% against Aslan's 0.08%.

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 Aslan is used

Across 2016–2025, Aslan was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 14,400 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 50,000).

214 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 7,143
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 10,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 11,111
  4. 4Washington1 in 11,111
  5. 5New York1 in 12,500
  6. 6Texas1 in 12,500
  7. 7California1 in 14,286
  8. 8Illinois1 in 14,286

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.

Aslan around the world

Where Aslan 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
    1999–2025
    #611
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2022
    #414
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #655
    in 2024
  • France
    1978–2025
    #417
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #794
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1973–1981
    #425
    in 1981

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA 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.

Aslan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#860
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,141
Best rank ever
#860
2025
Peak year
2025
280 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,720
Count in 2025
280

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,479
2019
Peak year
2007
8 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
90
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aslan

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

KelanMylanKalanAzlanRolanCalanOrlanLelanJalanArlanTylanTalanKaelanAylanKeilanWaylanBrylanNylanMarlanCaelanDeklanZylanOlanDaylan

Sibling names for Aslan

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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