# Burhan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/burhan/  
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 | Arabic |
| Meaning | “proof” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 281 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 281 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 322, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic بُرْهَان (burhān, “proof”), an epithet of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 11 | 7,146 |
| 2011 | 10 | 7,591 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,253 |
| 2013 | 10 | 7,614 |
| 2015 | 16 | 5,547 |
| 2016 | 10 | 7,685 |
| 2017 | 13 | 6,375 |
| 2018 | 17 | 5,355 |
| 2019 | 7 | 9,908 |
| 2020 | 15 | 5,748 |
| 2021 | 16 | 5,597 |
| 2022 | 13 | 6,543 |
| 2023 | 6 | 11,044 |
| 2024 | 12 | 6,898 |
| 2025 | 19 | 5,066 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 1,788 |
| 2012 | 9 | 2,270 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 10 | 2,079 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,004 |
| 2016 | 10 | 2,175 |
| 2017 | 12 | 1,923 |
| 2018 | 12 | 1,875 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,506 |
| 2020 | 13 | 1,723 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,595 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1,692 |
| 2023 | 20 | 1,309 |
| 2024 | 21 | 1,282 |
| 2025 | 25 | 1,153 |

## People named Burhan

- Burhan Shahidi, Chinese Tatar politician (1894–1989)
- Burhan Qurbani, German-Afghan film director
- Borhane Alaouié, film director (1941-2021)

## 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.