Banyan was the #10,695 boys' name in the US in 2025 (6 babies).
Banyan as a boy’s name
US
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
US
2025
#10,695 (6)
2023
#8,921 (8)
2022
#7,768 (10)
2021
#5,110 (18)
2020
#4,855 (19)
2019
#4,480 (22)
2018
#5,770 (15)
2017
#6,060 (14)
2016
#4,327 (23)
2015
#3,982 (26)
2014
#6,307 (13)
2013
#4,180 (23)
2012
#4,862 (19)
2011
#3,885 (26)
2010
#4,848 (19)
The tide so far
Peaked in the US in 2011 at #3,885.
Falling over the last five years.
First recorded in the US in 1996.
How common is it?
about 1 in 250,000 baby boys in the published US list for 2025.
In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.