Ayaan

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/eɪɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ayaan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 5.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 65K
  • SOSomalia≈1 in 10K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈41,000 people, est.

Sources
155 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 2

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ayaan, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ayaan 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.

Where Ayaan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan—≈41,000 est.≈1 in 5.7K—Ayaan36
BD Bangladesh—≈15,000 est.≈1 in 11K—Ayaan25
US United States—5,0931 in 65K4.9KAyaan155
SA Saudi Arabia—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 22K—Ayaan21
SO Somalia—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 10K18—8
AE United Arab Emirates#469≈680 est.≈1 in 15K—Ayaan28
BH Bahrain#766≈92 est.≈1 in 16K—Ayaan7

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; Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ayaan is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Äyääñ, Ayaàn, Åyāāñ, Aýąãņ

  • Turkish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, India, Netherlands

    Also written Ayåan, Ãyääñ

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ayaan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In oj, have

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In szy, when

    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)

1960198020002020Ayaan Hirsi Ali, b. 1969Ayaan Ali Khan, b. 1979Faizan Zubair Rahmani, b. 2008

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Ayaan,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 54 sources across 33 countries.

Reference works 2

  • 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

Is Ayaan a male or female name?
Ayaan 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.
How do you pronounce Ayaan?
A machine transcription gives /eɪɑn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Ayaan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Ayaan in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ayaan.
How common is the name Ayaan?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,093 people named Ayaan in 2020, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
How common is Ayaan compared with other names?
In the United Arab Emirates, Ayaan is the 469th most common given name of 31,430 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ayaan” — the 469th most common given name in United Arab Emirates. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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