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Ayaan

#465 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Ayaan has been given to 9,154 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #465 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 664 recorded.

Babies named Ayaan, 2025

1 in 4,990

Ayaan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayaan: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ayaan means

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

The naming story behind Ayaan

One of the source’s documented entries for Ayaan records a meaning of not moving, natural disposition or path, progress.

One of the source’s documented entries for Ayaan records a meaning of good luck.

Origin, language, and formation

Ayaan is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,903 boys were recorded with the name Ayaan between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 664 in 2025; its best national rank was #460 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #460 in 2020 to #465 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #637 in 2015 to #465 in 2025.

In the United States, 251 girls were recorded with the name Ayaan between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,582 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,684 in 2020 to #5,582 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,010 in 2015 to #5,582 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 Ayaan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,990
664 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,570
0.04% of boys
Rank, 2025
#465
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,462 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayaan 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 1002%
School of 50010%

Put another way: gather 3,462 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayaans were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,903
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.0% of all recorded uses (4,272).

Is Ayaan 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
+54
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+172
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (664)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#460
2020

Spellings of Ayaan

Ayaan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 41.2% against Ayaan's 0.38%.

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 Ayaan is used

Across 2016–2025, Ayaan was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 926 boys, against 1 in 2,642 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 33,333).

3108 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 926
  2. 2New York1 in 1,333
  3. 3Virginia1 in 1,538
  4. 4Maryland1 in 1,639
  5. 5Illinois1 in 1,786
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 2,041
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 2,041
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 2,083

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.

Geographically, Ayaan is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 84% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Ayaan around the world

Where Ayaan 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
    2001–2025
    #118
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2004–2025
    #198
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2020–2025
    #314
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2007–2025
    #317
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #294
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #219
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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, NRS, 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.

Notable people named Ayaan

People whose public names include Ayaan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ayaan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#465
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5
Best rank ever
#460
2020
Peak year
2025
664 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,903
Count in 2025
664

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,582
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 8,102
Best rank ever
#5,582
2025
Peak year
2025
22 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
251
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Ayaan

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

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Names with a curve like Ayaan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ayaan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ayaan

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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