An
About 2,519 American babies have been named An since 1946, most of them around 2010. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 3,975th. About 2,500 Ans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named An boys named An
Girls and boys called An
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
An crossed from boys to girls in 2003, and has stayed there for 23 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 75% girls, and in 2025 it was 59%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 46 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
- 2,519
- Estimated living today
- 2,500
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2010
- Best rank
- 3,409th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,975th
- First recorded
- 1946
- Girls / boys
- 1,393 / 1,126
How old the living Ans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,519 babies given the name since 1946, about 2,500 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,000 of them are children and 40 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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.
Notable Ans
- An Yong-hak (born 1978)North Korean association football player
- An Jung-geun (1879–1910)Korean independence activist
- An San (born 2001)South Korean female archer
- An Se-young (born 2002)South Korean badminton player
- An Ba-ul (born 1994)South Korean judoka
- An Yu-jin (born 2003)South Korean singer
- An Wang (1920–1990)American businessman
- An Chang-rim (born 1994)South Korean judoka
People named An with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where An is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, An is most concentrated in California (7.7×), Texas (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2010
The most popular girls’ names the year An peaked:
An elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | An | 164 | 1,892nd |
| Belgium girls | An | 100 | 423rd |
| England and Wales boys | An | 55 | 1,986th |
| France boys | An | 30 | 6,217th |
| France girls | An | 30 | 6,032nd |
| Scotland girls | An | 3 | 749th |
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.
An: rank by region
In 2003, An was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | An | 662 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – 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.
An by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 18 | 332nd |
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 3 | 490th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
An 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 girls | An | 19 | 129 |
| Finland boys | An | 12 | 97 |
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.
Related names
An against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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.