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AAN

noun

AAN is a noun meaning “Initialism of Australian Approved Name” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-A-N, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of AAN is AANs.

What does AAN mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of Australian Approved Name.

  2. 2

    derogatoryslangInitialism of anime-ass nigga (a black person who enjoys anime or manga, particularly one who acts like an anime character in real life).

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:AAN.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of AAN

  • AANs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is AAN?

AAN appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,738th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).