Bayan
About 1,267 American babies have been named Bayan since 1985, most of them around 2025. In 2025 it ranked 2,099th. About 1,300 Bayans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Bayan boys named Bayan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,267
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 2,099th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,099th
- First recorded
- 1985
- Girls / boys
- 1,152 / 115
How old the living Bayans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,267 babies given the name since 1985, about 1,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 840 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 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 Bayans
- Bayan Alaguzova (Yessentayeva) (born 1974)Kazakhstani singer, television presenter and businessperson
People named Bayan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Bayan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bayan is most concentrated in Michigan (8.6×), New York (4.3×), Illinois (2.2×), California (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Bayan peaked:
Bayan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Bayan | 438 | — |
| France girls | Bayan | 285 | 1,001st |
| England and Wales girls | Bayan | 195 | 1,512th |
| Belgium girls | Bayan | 136 | 490th |
| France boys | Bayan | 55 | 5,821st |
| England and Wales boys | Bayan | 4 | 3,990th |
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.
Bayan: rank by region
In 2025, Bayan was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Bayan | 656 | 7 |
| Brussels | Bayan | 244 | 5 |
In 2024, Bayan was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Bayan | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Bayan appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (244th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Bayan by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 7 | 390th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Bayan 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 | Bayan | 22 | 23 |
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 Bayan lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 809 women called Bayan 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
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Bayan | 7 | 0.162 | 672 |
| Almería | Bayan | 49 | 0.130 | 664 |
| Girona | Bayan | 53 | 0.128 | 671 |
| Tarragona | Bayan | 41 | 0.094 | 868 |
| Murcia | Bayan | 60 | 0.076 | 858 |
| Navarra | Bayan | 25 | 0.072 | 1,018 |
Listed in 30 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 22 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.
Related names
Bayan against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.