Maiwand
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maiwand has been given to 14 babies in the U.S. since 2020. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2022, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Maiwand, 2022
1 in 376,000
Maiwand 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Maiwand?
Maiwand had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 376,000
- 9 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 194,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 260,760 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maiwand sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 260,760 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maiwand. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maiwands were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maiwand was born before 2022 — so the typical Maiwand is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 14
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (14).
Is Maiwand 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2022 (9)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Maiwand
Maiwand is not the most common spelling — Marwan is, with 39.7% against Maiwand's 0.41%.
Maiwand around the world
Where Maiwand 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 & Wales2006–2022#4,790in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Maiwand by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maiwand
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maiwand
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.