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Ayan

#762 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Ayan has been given to 4,942 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #762 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 338 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% boys, 17% girls all-time.

Babies named Ayan, 2025

1 in 9,810

Ayan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Ayan went to 6% girls and 94% boys.

19752025

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.

Ayan: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ayan means

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

The naming story behind Ayan

One of the source’s documented entries for Ayan records a meaning of road, path, solar path.

One of the source’s documented entries for Ayan records a meaning of clear, obvious, revelation + witnessing, seeing, clear.

A separate documented entry treats Ayan as a variant of Ayaan. 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.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning Eon in Arabic. May be related to the greek word Aeon.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ayan (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Ayan is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,091 boys were recorded with the name Ayan between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 338 in 2025; its best national rank was #762 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #907 in 2020 to #762 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #999 in 2015 to #762 in 2025.

In the United States, 851 girls were recorded with the name Ayan between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2010; its best national rank was #3,989 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,185 in 2020 to #5,428 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,272 in 2015 to #5,428 in 2025.

How common is Ayan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,810
338 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,050
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#762
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,800 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayan 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,800 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayans were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,091
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (1,807).

Is Ayan 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
+115
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+145
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+237
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.66×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (338)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#762
2025

Spellings of Ayan

Ayan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 17.4% against Ayan's 0.07%.

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 Ayan is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Ayan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 2,857 boys, against 1 in 5,852 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 50,000).

235 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 2,857
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 2,941
  3. 3Virginia1 in 3,448
  4. 4Illinois1 in 3,704
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 4,348
  6. 6Michigan1 in 5,000
  7. 7California1 in 5,556
  8. 8Georgia1 in 5,556

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.

Where Ayan is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Ayan was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 99,333 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 16,667
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Ayan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ayan around the world

Where Ayan 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
    #201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2025
    #243
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2023–2023
    #312
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2013–2025
    #262
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2025
    #176
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #414
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2012
    #385
    in 2012

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 Ayan

People whose public names include Ayan, 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.

Ayan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#762
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 145
Best rank ever
#762
2025
Peak year
2025
338 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,091
Count in 2025
338

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,428
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,243
Best rank ever
#3,989
2000
Peak year
2010
35 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
851
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Ayan

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

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Names with a curve like Ayan

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

AdlerYahyaKyrenAlistairHarlemZamirBenicioJesiahAhmirBodenVeerBoaz

Sibling names for Ayan

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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