Aayaan
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- eye-AHN
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
Aayaan is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies).
Where does Aayaan come from?
Spelling of Ayaan; used in Muslim, Hindu and Somali families with different meanings
Meaning borrowed from Ayaan. More on Wiktionary.
Is Aayaan a girl's or a boy's name?
Aayaan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aayaan in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,065among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Aayaan, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,803rd. Its busiest year was 2016, with 9 boys.
Half of all the boys named Aayaan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 487 boys in the UK were given Aayaan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #131, up from #5,065 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Aayaan in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 5 | #3,772 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #4,803 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,169 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,468 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,086 |
| 2014 | 5 | #3,529 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,096 |
| 2012 | 5 | #3,572 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #3,395 |
| 2008 | 3 | #4,615 |
| 2007 | 3 | #4,486 |
| 2006 | 3 | #4,204 |
| 2005 | 3 | #3,992 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 1 | #4,616 |
Names like Aayaan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ahmed Aarav Muhammad Abdullah Musa Yahya Arham Rayyan Zayan Arjun Arjan Zayaan
Other spellings of Aayaan
Names related to Aayaan
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aayaan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aayaan, updated 20 October 2026.