Muskan

#11,604 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Muskan has been given to 349 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #11,604 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Muskan, 2025

1 in 414,000

Muskan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Muskan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,604
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Muskan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Muskan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Muskans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Muskan was born before 2005 — so the typical Muskan is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
61.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
349
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Choose a decade

2000s — 61.6% of all recorded uses (215).

Is Muskan 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
+3,117
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+197
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,210
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.2%
Peak was 2002 (36)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,697
2002

Spellings of Muskan

Muskan is not the most common spelling — Susan is, with 99.9% against Muskan'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.

Where Muskan is used

Across 1910–2025, Muskan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 502,642 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Muskan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Muskan around the world

Where Muskan 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
    1999–2025
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2025
    #6,465
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Muskan by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,604
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 197
Best rank ever
#3,697
2002
Peak year
2002
36 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
349
Count in 2025
8

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Sibling names for Muskan

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