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Affan

About 575 American babies have been named Affan since 1998, most of them around 2019. In 2025 it ranked 4,396th. About 570 Affans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Affan

By the numbers

Total US births
575
Estimated living today
570
Median age today
8
Peak year
2019
Best rank
2,421st
Rank in 2025
4,396th
First recorded
1998

How old the living Affans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 575 babies given the name since 1998, about 570 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 510 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Affan is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Affan is most concentrated in New York (5.7×), Texas (4.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2019

The most popular boys’ names the year Affan peaked:

All the names of 2019

Affan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Affan 444 861st
France boys Affan 55 4,251st
Ireland boys Affan 13 676th
Belgium boys Affan 5 1,350th
Scotland boys Affan 3 687th
Poland boys Affan 2 birth registrations 779th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Affan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Affan 9

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.