Ayaan

What Ayaan means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ayaan yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #118 vs #465 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ayaan?

US: Rising: up from #637 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #125 in 2015, #118 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 664 boys got the name (#465 that year). First in the US records in 2000.

How common

• About 1 in 2,572 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 614 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 935 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (2.38 per 1,000 boys), NJ (1.03 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.88 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Ayaan is #465 in the US and #118 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 96.8% of US babies named Ayaan were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Iyaan7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ayaan

Boys

• Zayden#213Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 2000, with 11 babies
• Beckham#168“homestead”^*
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Jude#155possibly “praised”^*
• Axel#79Editor’s note Up from #123 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 410 US boys in the 2025 records
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025

For a sister

• Layla#36Editor’s note Down from #30 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US
• Leila#259Editor’s note Steady in the US: #247 in 2015 and #259 in 2025
• Lola#275Editor’s note Down from #224 in 2015 to #275 in 2025 in the US
• Ximena#183Basque, meaning “son”^*
• Piper#155Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #67 in 2015, #155 in 2025
• Bella#136Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ayaan’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.