Ayan

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Ayan boys named Ayan

Girls and boys called Ayan

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Ayan crossed from girls to boys in 2004, and has stayed there for 22 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 94% boys, which is roughly where it still is.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 29 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

4,942

Estimated living today

4,900

Median age today

8

Peak year

2025

Best rank

762nd

Rank in 2025

762nd

First recorded

1975

Girls / boys

851 / 4,091

How old the living Ayans are

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,942 babies given the name since 1975, about 4,900 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 4,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Meaning Eon in Arabic. May be related to the greek word Aeon.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Ayans

• Ayan Sadakov (1961–2017)Bulgarian footballer
• Ayan Mukerji (born 1983)Indian film director

People named Ayan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Ayan is most common

• CA597
• NY540
• TX405
• NJ280
• IL234
• MN190
• VA165
• FL151
• GA137
• PA115

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ayan is most concentrated in Minnesota (3.0×), New Jersey (2.9×), Virginia (2.1×), New York (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Ayan peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• Theodore
• Henry
• James

All the names of 2025

Ayan elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Ayan: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Ayan is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.05% of children were given it – 51 of them.

Ayan: rank by region

In 2025, Ayan was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2020, Ayan was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Ayan was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ayan appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (91st), Province of Limburg (132nd), Province of Liège (147th), Province of Flemish Brabant (177th) and Province of East Flanders (179th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Ayan by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Ayan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Ayan lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 415 men called Ayan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 19 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 33 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Ayanna
• Ayana
• Ayaan
• Aya
• Ayah
• Ayat
• Ayala
• Ayansh
• Ayannah
• Ayaansh
• Ayako
• Ayanah

Ayan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Ayan vs Ayanna
• Ayan vs Ayana
• Ayan vs Ayaan
• Ayan vs Aya
• Ayan vs Ayah
• Ayan vs Ayat

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