# Ayaan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ayaan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 9,154 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,903 / 251 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 8,714, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 15,103 |
| 2012 | 11 | 9,812 |
| 2013 | 10 | 10,364 |
| 2014 | 14 | 8,113 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,015 |
| 2016 | 8 | 11,940 |
| 2017 | 6 | 14,378 |
| 2018 | 10 | 9,921 |
| 2019 | 8 | 11,511 |
| 2020 | 6 | 13,689 |
| 2021 | 15 | 7,309 |
| 2022 | 12 | 8,609 |
| 2023 | 13 | 8,119 |
| 2024 | 21 | 5,822 |
| 2025 | 22 | 5,583 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 322 | 710 |
| 2012 | 355 | 665 |
| 2013 | 388 | 638 |
| 2014 | 485 | 574 |
| 2015 | 416 | 637 |
| 2016 | 424 | 630 |
| 2017 | 503 | 551 |
| 2018 | 530 | 532 |
| 2019 | 553 | 516 |
| 2020 | 645 | 460 |
| 2021 | 570 | 514 |
| 2022 | 528 | 562 |
| 2023 | 586 | 512 |
| 2024 | 590 | 519 |
| 2025 | 664 | 465 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | 2,802 |
| 2005 | 8 | 2,438 |
| 2006 | 5 | 3,548 |
| 2007 | 9 | 2,410 |
| 2008 | 6 | 3,397 |
| 2009 | 7 | 3,031 |
| 2010 | 6 | 3,533 |
| 2011 | 5 | 4,049 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4,050 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4,535 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 547 | 117 |
| 2012 | 555 | 115 |
| 2013 | 523 | 115 |
| 2014 | 586 | 104 |
| 2015 | 514 | 125 |
| 2016 | 507 | 122 |
| 2017 | 452 | 131 |
| 2018 | 453 | 127 |
| 2019 | 422 | 133 |
| 2020 | 418 | 132 |
| 2021 | 390 | 146 |
| 2022 | 364 | 147 |
| 2023 | 356 | 149 |
| 2024 | 440 | 123 |
| 2025 | 443 | 118 |

## People named Ayaan

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch-American political activist and author

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.