Ciaran
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #1,609 for boys in 2025, 105 births
Given to boys 98.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 105 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,198since 1959
Ciaran over time
Rank among boys' names. Ciaran has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #1,609 | 105 |
| 2024 | — | #1,767 | 93 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,909 | 82 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,892 | 83 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,060 | 71 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,046 | 69 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,265 | 61 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,230 | 61 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,217 | 60 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,086 | 67 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,955 | 74 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,794 | 83 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,782 | 81 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,172 | 61 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,824 | 78 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,144 | 62 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,925 | 74 | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #1,838 | 79 |
| 2007 | — | #1,995 | 70 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,082 | 63 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,061 | 60 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #1,880 | 65 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #1,906 | 61 |
| 2002 | — | #2,224 | 47 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,117 | 49 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,330 | 41 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,098 | 45 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,987 | 48 | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #2,126 | 41 |
| 1996 | — | #2,254 | 36 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,685 | 27 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,123 | 38 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,697 | 26 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,604 | 17 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,462 | 17 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,823 | 8 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,446 | 16 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,162 | 11 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,731 | 12 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,882 | 11 | |
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| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
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| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
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| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | #4,907 | 5 |
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ciaran! It came in at #3,619, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1978, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ciaran
- 158 spots since 2024 (#1,767 → #1,609)
- 437 spots since 2020 (#2,046 → #1,609)
- 346 spots since 2015 (#1,955 → #1,609)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2025 at #1,609 (105 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,267 boys born in 2025 were named Ciaran (0.01%)
- 31.3% of all boys named Ciaran (688) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 6 | #3,619 (1959) | #3,619 |
| 1960s | 10 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,270 |
| 1970s | 17 | #4,842 (1979) | #5,198 |
| 1980s | 62 | #3,446 (1989) | #4,430 |
| 1990s | 303 | #1,987 (1998) | #2,886 |
| 2000s | 609 | #1,838 (2008) | #2,036 |
| 2010s | 688 | #1,782 (2013) | #2,047 |
| 2020s | 503 | #1,609 (2025) | #1,881 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ciaran in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 315,156 of them was named Ciaran, which outranked 24.8% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,832Zymeria7
- #13,832Zyniyah7
- #13,832Zyonah7
- #15,405Ciaran6
- #15,405Aahliyah6
- #15,405Aalaiyah6
- #15,405Aamiya6
- #17,504Aabriella5
- #17,504Aalaya5
- #17,504Aalayna5
Tied with 2,098 names at #15,405; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 25,825 of them was named Ciaran, which outranked 87.4% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,825Kris80
- #1,825Ladainian80
- #1,825Rasheed80
- #1,838Ciaran79
- #1,838Aayan79
- #1,838Aj79
- #1,838Briley79
- #1,861Arav78
- #1,861Auston78
- #1,861Flynn78
Tied with 22 names at #1,838; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.