Ayan

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ayan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ayan: Recorded since 1970, it reached #193 in 2022, and it stood at #262 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
100times a registrar ranked it
56years from first to last
#193highest recorded position
18groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1755
1997	#1365
1998	#1823
1999	#1317
2000	#1139
2001	#1439
2002	#1151
2003	#1224
2004	#1459
2005	#1121
2006	#1325
2007	#2410
2008	#1815
2009	#1909
2010	#1584
2011	#2432
2012	#2215
2013	#2313
2014	#2862
2015	#1865
2016	#2757
2017	#2925
2018	#5666
2019	#2286
2021	#4634
2022	#3148
2023	#3218
2024	#2411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 34 of the 44 years from 1970 to 2013.

In 2024: #200 among boys in England and Wales, #287 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #382 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1970–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1970
First recorded at #574 among girls in Norway in 1970 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #193 among boys in England and Wales, in 2022 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #262 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Ayan appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 34 years beginning in 1970, and has registered 293 births with the name.

Ayan across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ayan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#574 (1970)	#267 (1996)	#395 (2013)	34 of 44	293 (1970–2013)	16 (1996)
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#193 (2022)	#200 (2024)	25 of 29	2,422 (1996–2024)	267 (2022)
England and Wales · Girls	#1755 (1996)	#1121 (2005)	#2411 (2024)	28 of 29	337 (1996–2024)	22 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#711 (2013)	#262 (2025)	#262 (2025)	10 of 13	100 (2013–2025)	17 (2025)

Ayan by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ayan in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	16	3 of 10	5
1980s	87	9 of 10	10
1990sbusiest	115	10 of 10	12
2000s	55	9 of 10	6
2010s	20	3 of 10	7

Across Norway · Girls, the 1990s were its busiest decade, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ayan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1970 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #193 in England and Wales in 2022.

Ayan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2411	11	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#200	251	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#203	242	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#193	267	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#232	217	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#235	203	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2286	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#306	160	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#337	136	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#368	125	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2757	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#372	125	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1865	15	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#390	109	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2862	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#463	85	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2313	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#508	73	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2215	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#429	92	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2432	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#528	66	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1584	18	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#584	58	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1909	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#552	61	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#567	58	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#820	32	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1325	19	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#914	26	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1121	22	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1459	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1596	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1224	18	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1151	18	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1439	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1139	17	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1317	14	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1823	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1365	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1755	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#312	5	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#395	10	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#500	6	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#581	4	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#461	7	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#548	5	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#510	6	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#484	6	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#467	6	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#582	4	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#342	11	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#477	6	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#581	4	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#288	14	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#457	7	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#298	13	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#267	16	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#312	13	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#375	10	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#412	9	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#306	14	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#395	10	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#433	9	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#366	12	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#384	11	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#319	14	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#590	5	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#468	8	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#379	11	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#471	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#389	10	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#405	9	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#615	4	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#415	8	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#574	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#262	17	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#287	14	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	15	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#306	14	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#349	11	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#402	9	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#370	10	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#382	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1970 and 2025, ranked in 48 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #193, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 267 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 54 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Ayana · #402, 29y
Ayanah · #1785, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Yousef · #193, 43y
Hana · #190, 53y
Rafael · #181, 53y
Emmy · #210, 47y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Yousef · #193, 43y
Evelina · #194, 47y
Jennie · #192, 50y
Aifric · #191, 41y

Ayan was ranked #193 in England and Wales · Boys in 2022. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ayan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ayan without appearing here.

Ayan moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2018 they stood at #5666 and #5666 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2286 and #5591.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #5666 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2286 and #5591.
Kristin Compare
In 2018 they stood at #5666 and #5666 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2286 and #5591.
Leif Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1991 and #1617 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #914 and #4052.

Moved ahead of Ayan

Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2925 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #1711.
Eabha Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2286 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #1069.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2286 and #3541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #1785.
Noah Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2286 and #2869 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #2201.

Moved the opposite way to Ayan

Catherine Compare
Between 1970 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Ayan went from #574 to #342 while Catherine went from #279 to #546.
Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayan went from #2863 to #200 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayan went from #2863 to #200 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayan went from #2863 to #200 while Alan went from #163 to #592.

Moved the same way as Ayan

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayan went from #2863 to #200 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayan went from #2863 to #200 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayan went from #2863 to #200 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayan went from #2863 to #200 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1970 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #193 in England and Wales in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ayan

Ayan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ayan across 4 official records

Ayan by decade in Norway · Girls

Ayan appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Ayan

Ayan and the names beside it

Ayan moved ahead of

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Ayan at a glance

Ayan across 4 official records

Ayan by decade in Norway · Girls

Ayan appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Ayan

Ayan and the names beside it

Ayan moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Ayan

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