Afnan

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Afnan boys named Afnan

Girls and boys called Afnan

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 670 girls and 197 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 45 to 17.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 14 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

867

Estimated living today

860

Median age today

9

Peak year

2024

Best rank

3,459th

Rank in 2025

3,389th

First recorded

1985

Girls / boys

670 / 197

How old the living Afnans are

born that year still alive today

Of the 867 babies given the name since 1985, about 860 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 630 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 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 Afnan is most common

• MN58
• NY47
• OH8

Relative to how many babies each state records, Afnan is most concentrated in Minnesota (27.6×), New York (5.3×).

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

Names of 2024

The most popular girls’ names the year Afnan peaked:

• Olivia
• Emma
• Amelia
• Charlotte
• Mia
• Sophia

All the names of 2024

Afnan elsewhere

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.

Afnan: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Afnan: rank by region

In 2025, Afnan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2024, Afnan was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2021, Afnan was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Afnan 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.

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.

Where Afnan lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 634 women called Afnan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 24 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 28 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.