Yan

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Yan: Recorded since 1996, it reached #448 in 2005, and it stood at #785 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#448highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
2000	#3912
2002	#3409
2003	#3099
2004	#4598
2005	#4798
2006	#3548
2007	#3667
2008	#3860
2009	#2148
2010	#2843
2011	#3185
2013	#4050
2014	#2862
2016	#5785
2023	#5687

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 boys in England and Wales in 26 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #3254 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2005–2024
Highest recorded position: #448 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2005 (recorded 2005–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3254 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Yan appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 151 births with the name.

Yan across 3 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.

Yan'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
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#1953 (2008)	#3254 (2024)	26 of 29	151 (1996–2024)	10 (2008)
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#2148 (2009)	#5687 (2023)	16 of 28	81 (1996–2023)	11 (2009)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#448 (2005)	#448 (2005)	#785 (2024)	3 of 20	10 (2005–2024)	4 (2005)

Yan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Yan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	16	4 of 10	4
2000sbusiest	58	9 of 10	6
2010s	56	9 of 10	6
2020s	21	4 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Yan 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #448 in Republic of Ireland in 2005.

Yan'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	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2493	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2862	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3039	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2194	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2400	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2148	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2126	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1953	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2023	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2174	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #448, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

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 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 9 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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Yana · #443, 29y
Yanis · #516, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Elisei · #448, 21y
Hira · #448, 30y
Huzaifa · #448, 30y
Libbie · #448, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Faruq · #448, 11y
Hira · #448, 30y
Huzaifa · #448, 30y
Libbie · #448, 28y

Yan was ranked #448 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2005. 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.

Yan 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 Yan without appearing here.

Yan moved ahead of

Kristy Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3860 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2148 and #5556.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3667 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2843 and #5707.
Lynette Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3548 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2148 and #4564.
Brooke Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4632 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #2734 and #4812.

Moved ahead of Yan

Malin Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4050 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2120.
Matheo Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2493 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4991 and #1363.
Cecilie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4050 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2504.
Rune Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3011 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #3848 and #2228.

Moved the opposite way to Yan

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Yan went from #3795 to #5687 while Ada went from #2683 to #37.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Yan went from #3795 to #5687 while Alma went from #2096 to #228.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Yan went from #3795 to #5687 while Alyssa went from #783 to #241.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Yan went from #3795 to #5687 while Amalie went from #2096 to #865.

Moved the same way as Yan

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Yan went from #3795 to #5687 and Abigail from #21 to #134.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Yan went from #3795 to #5687 and Aimee from #70 to #1206.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Yan went from #3795 to #5687 and Aisling from #440 to #2504.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Yan went from #3795 to #5687 and Alex from #161 to #2504.

What's not yet available

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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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #448 in Republic of Ireland in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Yan

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Popularity journey

Yan across 3 official records

Yan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Yan across 3 official records

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