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Aztlan

Boy · ahs-TLAHN

Aztlan is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 7,190th for boys in the US (11 babies).

What does Aztlan mean?

Nahuatl, the legendary homeland of the Aztecs

Aztlan is the legendary ancestral homeland of the Aztecs, adopted as a symbol by the Chicano movement.

Say it
ahs-TLAHN

Is Aztlan a girl's or a boy's name?

Aztlan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Aztlan in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,190among boys
Babies in 2025
11about 1 in 160,000 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, 11 boys in the US were named Aztlan, making it the 7,190th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 13 boys. It first appears in the records in 2001.

Half of all the boys named Aztlan in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

2001Busiest: 13 in 20182025
Aztlan in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202511#7,190
20246#10,930
20235#12,232
20226#10,855
202111#7,084
20205#12,016
20190–
201813#6,341
20170–
20165#12,180
20150–
20140–
20136#10,722
20125#12,267
20118#8,760
20109#8,133
20097#9,859
200812#6,758
200711#7,090
20067#9,579
20050–
20040–
20030–
20026#9,385
20016#9,236

Names like Aztlan

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.