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Yazdan

#7,169 in 2025Boys' name

Angel, divinity, saint

Yazdan has been given to 53 babies in the U.S. since 2017. In 2025 it ranked #7,169 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Yazdan, 2025

1 in 276,000

Yazdan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yazdan: meaning, origin, and history

Angel, divinity, saint

Persian

What Yazdan means

Yazdan means “angel, divinity, saint”.

Origin, language, and formation

Yazdan is used in French. Its origins include Persian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Yazdan is pronounced /jaz.dan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 53 boys were recorded with the name Yazdan between 2017 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2024; its best national rank was #5,430 in 2024.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yazdan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,169
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yazdan 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yazdan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yazdans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yazdan was born before 2024 — so the typical Yazdan is around 1 today.

Median birth year
2024
About 1 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
84.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
53
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Choose a decade

2020s — 84.9% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Yazdan 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
−1,739
Places dropped
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
66.7%
Peak was 2024 (18)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
67.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,430
2024

Spellings of Yazdan

Yazdan is not the most common spelling — Aidan is, with 67.4% against Yazdan'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.

Yazdan around the world

Where Yazdan 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
    2011–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • France
    2022–2022
    #7,047
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2022–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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.

Yazdan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,169
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,430
2024
Peak year
2024
18 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
53
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Yazdan

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

YazinKeydanVandanRaidanVardanDardanYazirYazeedYazielRaydanJeydanKodanArdanBrydanNandanZeidanHaidanLindanAvidanYordanKeedanZeydanNeydanYazen

Sibling names for Yazdan

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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