Aryan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aryan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A member of a race defined variously as comprising people of Germanic descent, in the narrowest sense, or all non-Jewish Caucasians, in the broadest sense.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 48K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Aryan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 named Ayan, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ayan in AZ Azerbaijan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A member of a race defined variously as comprising people of Germanic descent, in the narrowest sense, or all non-Jewish Caucasians, in the broadest sense
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aryan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Aryan | 32 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Aryan | 37 |
| US United States | 6,988 | 1 in 48K | 6.4K | Aryan | 250 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 1.9K | Ayan | 9 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | #5 | Aryan | 76 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Aryan | 18 |
| SE Sweden | 1,152as Ayan | 1 in 8.9K | 1.2K | Aryan | 15 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Aryan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Indo-European people or long.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Kurdish, Of noble and aristocratic origin
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Kurdish, alternative form of arîn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aryan Kaganofb. 1964ZASouth African writer and film director
- Aryan Vaidb. 1976INIndian actor
- JonTronb. 1990USnot in their usual nameAmerican YouTube personality (born 1990)
- Matt Hartb. 1993CAnot in their usual nameCanadian professional wrestler (born 1993)
- Aryan Kingb. 1995ESUkrainian Singer
- Aryan Tarib. 1999NONorwegian chess player
- Aryan Choprab. 2001INIndian chess player (born 2001)
- Aryan Gholamib. 2001IRIranian chess player (born 2001)
- Aryan Duttb. 2003NLDutch cricketer
- Aryan Simhadrib. 2006USactor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 76 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.4K | #3,136 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 622 | #2,373 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 569 | #3,136 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 351 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 275 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Aryan mean, and where does it come from?
- A member of a race defined variously as comprising people of Germanic descent, in the narrowest sense, or all non-Jewish Caucasians, in the broadest sense Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Aryan a male or female name?
- Aryan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Aryan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 111 thousand people named Ayan in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Aryan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,988 people named Aryan in 2020, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aryanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aryan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.