Cillian

Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #507 for boys in 2025, 595 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time

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Peak · boys
2024 · 668 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,084
since 1995

Cillian over time

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Rank among boys' names. Cillian has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202018boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#507595
2024#13,4776#463668
2023#594477
2022#735353
2021#747341
2020#957228
2019#1,078186
2018#1,052193
2017#1,126170
2016#1,105177
2015#1,416121
2014#1,73087
2013#1,85177
2012#1,94273
2011#2,03566
2010#2,35454
2009#2,45152
2008#2,46751
2007#2,97439
2006#2,74442
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First appearance
1995

The first year at least five boys were named Cillian! It came in at #8,868, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1995–2000, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Cillian
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 44 spots since 2024 (#463#507)
  • 450 spots since 2020 (#957#507)
  • 909 spots since 2015 (#1,416#507)
  • Biggest jump: 210 spots in 2021 (#957#747)
  • Biggest drop: 44 spots in 2025 (#463#507)
Rise & fade · boys
29 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1995
  • Peaked 2024 at #463 (668 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 6 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2020–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 2,579
  • Highest: 1 in 2,579 boys born in 2024 were named Cillian (0.04%)
  • Latest: 1 in 2,871 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 65.2% of all boys named Cillian (2,662) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s10#8,868 (1995)#9,390
2000s208#2,451 (2009)#5,017
2010s1,204#1,052 (2018)#1,569
2020s2,662#463 (2024)#667

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.

Cillian in 2018

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#1,052
193 births · 1 in 9,410 boys

Top boys' names in 2018

  1. #1Liam19,977
  2. #2Noah18,441
  3. #3William14,646
  4. #4James13,650
  5. #5Oliver13,500
  6. #6Benjamin13,488
  7. #7Elijah13,020
  8. #8Lucas12,665
  9. #9Mason12,526
  10. #10Logan12,447
  11. #1,052Cillian193
More about 2018

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1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 9,410 of them was named Cillian, which outranked 92.5% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cillian
  1. #1,045Jonathon194
  2. #1,045Pierre194
  3. #1,045Yisroel194
  4. #1,052Cillian193
  5. #1,052Deklan193
  6. #1,052Isai193
  7. #1,052Shimon193
  8. #1,056Agustin192
  9. #1,056Dominique192
  10. #1,056Evander192

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2017
Risers
  1. 594Genesis#1,575#981
  2. 436Baker#1,149#713
  3. 430Saint#1,287#857
  4. 319Kairo#802#483
  5. 307Watson#1,020#713
Fallers
  1. 235Aaden#893#1,128
  2. 224Dilan#917#1,141
  3. 201Craig#980#1,181
  4. 177Mike#951#1,128
  5. 172Harper#798#970

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2018