Faolan
#8,462 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Faolan has been given to 197 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #8,462 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 23 recorded.
Babies named Faolan, 2025
1 in 368,000
Faolan over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Faolan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,462
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Faolan sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Faolan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Faolans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Faolan was born before 2017 — so the typical Faolan is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 50.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 197
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (100).
Is Faolan 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
- −2,184
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,397
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +539
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.13×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 39.1%
- Peak was 2023 (23)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 47.1% average annual change
Spellings of Faolan
Faolan is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 49.8% against Faolan's 0.03%.
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.
Faolan around the world
Where Faolan 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 & Wales2003–2025#2,133in 2025
- Northern Ireland2006–2025#159in 2025
- Ireland1993–2025#170in 2025
- France2018–2018#7,049in 2018
- South Australia1988–2003#588in 2003
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 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.
Faolan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Faolan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Faolan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.