Aryan is an, originally masculine, variant of the unisex name Arya. This is an old Hindi name that means ‘noble’ and is today also known in France and Spain, for example.
Aryan is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
The name Aryan isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Aryan ranks 693. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Aryan. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Aryan.
Aryan is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Aryan cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #559 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2007. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Aryan, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Aryan seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Aryan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
314 babies were named Aryan in 2022 - that's 1 in 534,523 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Aryan ranked 742 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Aryan is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Aryan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Aryan, you can simply say:
Apple
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Yoyo
Apple
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Aryan
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
R
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N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Aryan sounds like this:
