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Faolan

The boy's name Faolan has been in the national records since 2006, with 197 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 200 Faolans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Faolan

By the numbers

Total US births
197
Estimated living today
200
Median age today
8
Peak year
2023
Best rank
4,456th
Rank in 2025
8,243rd
First recorded
2006

How old the living Faolans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 197 babies given the name since 2006, about 200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. 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.

Names of 2023

The most popular boys’ names the year Faolan peaked:

All the names of 2023

Faolan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Ireland boys Faolán +1 spelling 265 172nd
Northern Ireland boys Faolan 109 116th
England and Wales boys Faolan 77 2,133rd
France boys Faolan 5 7,049th

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.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.