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Ayhan

#3,857 in 2025Boys' name

Moon + khan, ruler, leader

Ayhan has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #3,857 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Ayhan, 2025

1 in 118,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayhan: meaning, origin, and history

Moon + khan, ruler, leader

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ayhan means

Ayhan means “moon + khan, ruler, leader”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ayhan is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 109 boys were recorded with the name Ayhan between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,857 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,827 in 2020 to #3,857 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 Ayhan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 61,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,857
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayhan 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayhan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayhans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayhan was born before 2023 — so the typical Ayhan is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
80.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
109
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2020s — 80.7% of all recorded uses (88).

Is Ayhan 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
+1,600
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,970
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (28)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,857
2025

Spellings of Ayhan

Ayhan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 28.0% against Ayhan's <0.01%.

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 Ayhan is used

Across 1910–2025, Ayhan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,340,977 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Ayhan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ayhan around the world

Where Ayhan 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
    #1,153
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–2025
    #1,404
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–1981
    #425
    in 1981

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.

Ayhan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,857
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,970
Best rank ever
#3,857
2025
Peak year
2025
28 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
109
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Ayhan

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

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Sibling names for Ayhan

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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