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Xan

Xan reached its high-water mark in 2007 at number 7,094, and has been recorded 255 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 240 Xans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Xan boys named Xan

By the numbers

Total US births
255
Estimated living today
240
Median age today
32
Peak year
2007
Best rank
7,094th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1965
Girls / boys
123 / 132

How old the living Xans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 255 babies given the name since 1965, about 240 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 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 Xan is most common

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

Names of 2007

The most popular boys’ names the year Xan peaked:

All the names of 2007

Xan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Xan 710 943rd
England and Wales boys Xan 23 4,275th
Belgium boys Xan 5 1,250th

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.

Where Xan lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 308 men called Xan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Coruña, A Xan 123 0.226 348
Ourense Xan 25 0.170 441
Pontevedra Xan 69 0.151 450
Lugo Xan 13 0.082 704
Gipuzkoa Xan 20 0.056 979
Navarra Xan 8 0.024 2,064

Listed in 6 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 46 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.

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Xan 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.