Bijan
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Persian
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Bijan is a boys' name of Persian origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Bijan mean?
Persian
A male given name from Persian.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Bijan a girl's or a boy's name?
Bijan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Bijan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,906among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 210,000 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, 8 boys in the US were named Bijan, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 1991, with 65 boys. It first appears in the records in 1968.
Half of all the boys named Bijan in the US since 1880 were born between 1989 and 2000, the years shaded on the chart below.
Bijan in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,638 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,553 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,495 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,224 |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,859 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,182 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,586 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,899 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,626 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,530 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,870 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,344 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,223 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,144 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,935 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,549 |
| 1997 | 46 | #1,961 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,530 |
| 1995 | 42 | #1,983 |
| 1994 | 47 | #1,817 |
| 1993 | 61 | #1,507 |
| 1992 | 58 | #1,520 |
| 1991 | 65 | #1,405 |
| 1990 | 43 | #1,804 |
| 1989 | 55 | #1,487 |
| 1988 | 41 | #1,701 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,165 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,288 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,115 |
| 1984 | 30 | #1,841 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,084 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,708 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,219 |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,054 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,769 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,099 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,438 |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,672 |
Names like Bijan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Arman Imran Hassan Ravi Arjun Rishi Jahan Avi Jordan Shayan Dylan Tristan
More Persian names
Jasper Esther Jasmine Casper Cyrus Yasmin Darius Zorawar Kiyan Rumi Yasmine Kasper Mahnoor Dario Arian Armaan
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Bijan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bijan, updated 20 October 2026.