Titan
#1,295 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Titan has been given to 5,501 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #1,295 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 421 recorded.
Babies named Titan, 2025
1 in 22,000
Titan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Titan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 22,000
- 151 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 11,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,295
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 15,219 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Titan 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 15,219 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Titan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Titans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Titan was born before 2017 — so the typical Titan is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 55.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5,496
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 55.4% of all recorded uses (3,044).
Is Titan 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
- −277
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −624
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −656
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.36×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 35.9%
- Peak was 2017 (421)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.8% average annual change
Spellings of Titan
Titan is not the most common spelling — Ian is, with 31.3% against Titan's 0.67%.
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 Titan is used
Across 2016–2025, Titan was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 787 boys, against 1 in 5,435 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).
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.
Geographically, Titan is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 90% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names
Titan around the world
Where Titan 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 & Wales2015–2023#4,108in 2023
- Canada2004–2024#1,614in 2024
- South Australia1994–2013#499in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Titan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Titan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Titan
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Titan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Titan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.