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Jahan

#2,956 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Leaping, bounding, through جهان

Jahan has been given to 877 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #2,956 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 42 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Jahan, 2025

1 in 78,900

Jahan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Jahan over time

In 2025, Jahan went to 14% girls and 86% boys.

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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.

Jahan: meaning, origin, and history

Leaping, bounding, through جهان

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jahan means

Jahan belongs to the name family reached through Jahan → جهان. Its meaning is “leaping, bounding”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jahan is used in English.

Jahan comes through Persian جهان.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include جهان.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 832 boys were recorded with the name Jahan between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2018; its best national rank was #2,858 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,860 in 2020 to #2,956 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,077 in 2015 to #2,956 in 2025.

In the United States, 45 girls were recorded with the name Jahan between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2021; its best national rank was #10,881 in 1983.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,250 in 2015 to #12,430 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.

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How common is Jahan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 40,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,956
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jahan 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 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jahan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jahans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jahan was born before 2010 — so the typical Jahan is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
832
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (229).

Is Jahan 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
+283
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+904
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,121
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2018 (42)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,858
2018

Spellings of Jahan

Jahan is not the most common spelling — John is, with 59.5% against Jahan'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 Jahan is used

Across 1910–2025, Jahan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 363,802 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Jahan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jahan around the world

Where Jahan 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
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2024
    #3,208
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1994–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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.

Jahan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,956
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 904
Best rank ever
#2,858
2018
Peak year
2018
42 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
832
Count in 2025
42

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,430
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#10,881
1983
Peak year
2021
7 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
45
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Jahan

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

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Sibling names for Jahan

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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