Nan
Recorded for girlsSilent Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
10,274
peak year 1947
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1947
- 255 births
- Best rank
- #341
- in 1883
- First recorded
- 1880
- #431 that year
- Last recorded
- 2022
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1938
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 123 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1947255#523Peak
- 1955253#575
- 1949236#544
- 1951233#556
- 1953229#584
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #341 in 1883 · peak births 255 in 1947
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Nan has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The boys' series
No boys have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.