Aylan
Masculine · “oak”
Aylan is an oak in Turkish and Kurdish, and the sound also sits close to the Irish Aidan and the Hebrew Elan.
How old is the name Aylan?
Aylan first appears in US birth records in 2008 — 17 years ago. The typical Aylan is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Aylan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aylan most popular?
Aylan peaked in 2016, reaching #1655 nationally. Today it ranks #2056, 401 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Aylan
Our story of Aylan is a story of several languages arriving at one tree. Kurdish and Turkish have words for an oak that sound like it; Hebrew has ilan for a tree, and Elan from it; Breton gave Europe Alan, whose meaning nobody has recovered. American and European families use Aylan without much regard for which. The tree reading is the one most sources give, and its convergence across languages is real even where descent is not.
Meaningscholars disagree
oak, tree
Most often traced to the Kurdish and Turkish aylan or eylan, related to words for an oak or a tree. Other attributions include a form of Alan, of unrecovered Breton origin, and the Hebrew ilan, 'tree'. The tree readings converge but no single source is established.
Pronouncing Aylan
AY-lun
Two syllables, stress on the first. Turkish gives both vowels a fuller value.
Nicknames for Aylan
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2008
- Most boys named
- 201696 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1655reached in 2016
- Change vs 2024
- +60.0%72 in 2025, from 45
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Aylan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aylan in Turkish — same name
- Eylan in Kurdish — related form
- Ailan in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Pennsylvania. INSEE rounds every published count to the nearest five for statistical confidentiality; the ranks are calculated from the exact figures. International figures from INSEE. Sources
Aylans among us
people named Aylan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 23,723 born in 2025 was named Aylan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shayan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aylan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shayan climbed just as high around 1999, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shayan's path sketches the road Aylan is walking now.
Aylan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Aylan is headed
Aylan is easing off slowly — about 15% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Aylan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aylan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The oak reading is concrete and appears across several languages.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- It works across Turkish, Kurdish and English contexts.
- No single origin is established.
- A widely published 2015 news photograph attached the name to a tragedy.
- Alan, Aylan and Aidan are all close enough to confuse.
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Masculine · #2056 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Aylans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Aylan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Aylan in 2025?
- Aylan ranks #2056 among US boy names in 2025, with 72 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aylan?
- About 1 in every 23,723 US boys born in 2025 was named Aylan — 72 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aylan with classmates?
- Aylan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration; international figures from national statistics agencies. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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