Ciaran

Where Ciaran comes from

Borrowed from Irish Ciarán.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ciaran
  • Irish
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1959
    First appearance
    #3,619 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2025
    Peak, #1,609
    105 babies named Ciaran — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Irish.
  • A female given name from Irish.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.