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Boyan

#9,847 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Bojan

Boyan has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #9,847 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Boyan, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Boyan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Bojan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Boyan means

Boyan is a form of Bojan.

Origin, language, and formation

Boyan is used in Atayal.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bojan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 109 boys were recorded with the name Boyan between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2019; its best national rank was #6,368 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,850 in 2020 to #9,847 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,720 in 2015 to #9,847 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 Boyan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,847
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Boyan 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Boyan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Boyans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Boyan was born before 2019 — so the typical Boyan is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
109
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 55.0% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Boyan 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
+1,288
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−997
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,127
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.8%
Peak was 2019 (13)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
50.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,368
2021

Spellings of Boyan

Boyan is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 33.3% against Boyan'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.

Boyan around the world

Where Boyan 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
    2007–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    2008–2021
    #6,358
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2001–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Boyan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,847
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 997
Best rank ever
#6,368
2021
Peak year
2019
13 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
109
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Boyan

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

IlyanKhyanHiyanBoydeNoyanLiyanJiyanAlyanAyyanNiyanSiyanDiyanIzyanVyanNahyanBoykinKilyanDayyanMayanZiyanDemyanDyanSaiyanXyan

Sibling names for Boyan

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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