Bayan comes from the Kazakh / Kurdish tradition, meaning Morning; woman.
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How popular is Bayan?
2024peak year
Today, Bayan is rarely chosen — ranked well outside the top 1,000 (around #3186), with only about 55 babies given the name per year. But it wasn't always this way. At its peak in 2024, 78 babies were given the name (ranked #2345 nationally). Its strongest stretch was the 2010s. Bayan has been trending upward in recent years. In all, around 1,178 babies have been registered as Bayan since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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