Given name
Trajan
“to last (to endure, continue over time)”
Trajan is a masculine given name from Macedonian, meaning “to last (to endure, continue over time).”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Trajan means “to last (to endure, continue over time).”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Trajan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 787
- 787 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 141 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −27%
- Easing
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 11 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 141 in 1999. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 759 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Trajan’s family of names
In Polish usage, Trajan has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form TRAIANO. In Polish usage, Trajan has a conventional equivalent in the Hungarian form Traianus. In Polish usage, Trajan has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Τραϊανός.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Trajan has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Macedonian roots to each of them.
Macedonianwhere Trajan comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Trajan
- Trajan LangdonAmerican basketball player (born 1976)
- Trajan the PatricianByzantine historian500–701
- Traian DodaAustro-Hungarian major general of Romanian ethnicity (1822–1895)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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