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Aayan

Aayan: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“gift of God”
Origin
Arabic
Say it
ah-YAHN · 2 syllables
Used for
Boys

Commonly treated as a variant transliteration of Ayaan, used in Arabic and South Asian contexts. Spellings vary, and meanings are sometimes given differently depending on source.

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How popular is Aayan?

202442.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Aayan in 2024140

2024 rank#1,358 boys

Peak year2019

Total US babies since 18802,566

Aayan is rising: use over the last five years is 1.8× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Aayan

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Ayaangift of God · Arabic
  • Amircommander, prince · Arabic
  • Muhammadpraised · Arabic
  • Zaynbeauty, grace · Arabic
  • Omarflourishing, long-lived · Arabic
  • Cairovictorious · Arabic
  • Ibrahimfather of multitudes · Arabic
  • Khalilfriend, beloved · Arabic

Aayan questions

What does the name Aayan mean?

Aayan means "gift of God". It comes from Arabic. Commonly treated as a variant transliteration of Ayaan, used in Arabic and South Asian contexts. Spellings vary, and meanings are sometimes given differently depending on source.

Is Aayan a boy or girl name?

Aayan is mainly a boy's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Aayan?

140 US babies were named Aayan in 2024. Its peak year was 2019.

How do you pronounce Aayan?

Aayan is usually pronounced ah-YAHN.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.