Ayan

What Ayan means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #201 vs #762 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ayan?

US: Rising: up from #998 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #390 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 338 boys got the name (#762 that year). First in the US records in 1975.

How common

• About 1 in 5,053 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,066 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,155 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 VA (0.62 per 1,000 boys), MI (0.47 per 1,000 boys), MD (0.44 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Ayan is #762 in the US and #201 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 93.6% of US babies named Ayan were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ayyan8 US · 15 E&W
• Eyan12 US · 3 E&W
• Iyan9 US
• Iyon5 US
• Ayann5 US
• Ayon0 US · 3 E&W

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 Ayan

Boys

• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Leonardo#91Italian, from Old French Leonard, meaning “as strong as a lion”^*
• Josiah#54Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #54 vs #226 in 2025
• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records

For a sister

• Adalynn#184Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Myla#210Editor’s note Up from #335 in 2015 to #210 in 2025 in the US
• Emersyn#138Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #138 vs #3,705 in 2025
• Lyla#80Editor’s note Up from #141 in 2015 to #80 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 520 US girls in the 2025 records
• Ailani#168Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,199 in 2015, #168 in 2025

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 Ayan’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.