Jihan
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- jee-HAHN
- Origin
- Persian
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #6,442 for boys
Jihan is a name of Persian origin, meaning “world; universe”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies) and 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
What does Jihan mean?
Persian: from jahan 'world'
“world; universe”
From the Persian word for 'world', also found in Turkish as Cihan and in names like Jahangir, 'world-conqueror'.
Is Jihan a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Jihan has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK and 6 girls and 13 boys in the US.
How popular is Jihan in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,065th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 367% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Jihan, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2024, with 9 boys.
In 2025, 12 boys in the UK were given Jihan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,763, up from #5,065 for this spelling alone.
- Cihan 9
- Jihan 3
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Jihan in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 9 | #2,515 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #3,639 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 1 | #6,258 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,063 |
| 2013 | 3 | #4,884 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,026 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #4,615 |
How popular is Jihan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,442nd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 130,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Jihan, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. It first appears in the records in 2003. 6 girls were also named Jihan in 2025 (13,203rd for girls).
2025 had the most boys named Jihan of any year since it first appeared, in 2003.
Half of all the boys named Jihan in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Jihan in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,293 |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,794 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,797 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,180 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,102 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,722 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,758 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,886 |
Names like Jihan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Arjan, Ayaan, Aarav, Vihaan, Avyaan, Ivaan, Shivansh, Krishiv, Yahya, Gurbaaz, Bodhi, Ayan
Other spellings of Jihan
Cihan
Names related to Jihan
More Persian names
Jasper, Esther, Jasmine, Casper, Cyrus, Yasmin, Darius, Zorawar, Kiyan, Rumi, Yasmine, Kasper, Mahnoor, Dario, Arian, Arman
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Jihan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jihan, updated 20 October 2026.