Syan
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Syan has been given to 160 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 1999, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 64% girls, 36% boys all-time.
Babies named Syan, 2011
1 in 732,000
Syan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Syan over time
In 2024, Syan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Syan?
Syan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,935 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,099 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Syan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Syan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Syans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Syan was born before 2004 — so the typical Syan is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 68.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 103
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 68.9% of all recorded uses (71).
Is Syan 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 1999 (16)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.6% average annual change
Spellings of Syan
Syan is not the most common spelling — Susan is, with 40.8% against Syan'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.
Syan around the world
Where Syan 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 & Wales1998–2006#4,157in 2006
- South Australia1998–1999#729in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Syan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Syan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Syan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.