girls:
29 births since 1990
#5687 (0th percentile)
boys:
980 births since 1968
#3612 (21st percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1968
#6730 (13th percentile)
The name Bijan is the #6,730 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,009 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 13.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,612 (21.2% percentile) for all time with 980 births since 1968. For girls, it ranks #5,687 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 29 births since 1990.
Bijan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for boys and 1990 for girls). Birth data for Bijan is available in 43 out of the 55 years between 1968 and 2022 (43 years for boys and 5 years for girls). 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.
The name Bijan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Bijan reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 7.9% percentile (ranked #700) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 31 births per million (ranked 7.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Bijan reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #859) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bijan".
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Our model has identified 19 different pronunciations for the name Bijan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.0% confident that Bijan is pronounced as BIH-juhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEE-juhn, at 17.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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