Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1968. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bijan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,027
- 998 boys · 29 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 71 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,028 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,028 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 65 in 1991. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,949 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 87,751 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bijan’s family of names
In English usage, Bijan was borrowed from the Persian form بیژن.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bijan
- Bijan Namdar ZangenehIranian politicianborn 1953
- Bijan ZolfagharnasabIranian footballerborn 1949
- Bijan RobinsonAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Bijan NajdiIranian writer (1941-1997)
- Bijan AbdolkarimiIranian philosopher, thinker, translator and editorborn 1963
- Bijan DaneshmandIranian actorborn 1958
- BijanIranian designer (1940-2011)
- Bijan Djir-SaraiGerman-Iranian politicianborn 1976
- Bijan MortazaviIranian virtuoso violinist, musician, composer, songwriter, arranger and singerborn 1957
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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