boys:
2.4k births since 2002
#2565 (44th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 2002
#5400 (30th percentile)
The name Aayan is the #5,400 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,426 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 30.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,565 (44.0% percentile) for all time with 2,426 births since 2002.
Aayan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (first recorded for boys in 2002). Birth data for Aayan is available in 21 out of the 22 years between 2002 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Aayan reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 22.2% percentile (ranked #714) with 109 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 109 births per million (ranked 22.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Aayan ranks #765 for boys (16.0% percentile) with 82 births per million, which is 75.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aayan".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Aayan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.3% confident that Aayan is pronounced as AH-yuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-uhn, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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