Cyan
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births · #4,139 for boys in 2025, 25 births
Given to girls 73.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 98 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,118since 1986
Cyan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #5,722 | 21 | #4,139 | 25 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 | #3,001 | 41 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 | #2,848 | 44 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #5,338 | 17 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #5,770 | 15 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 | #4,179 | 24 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #5,114 | 27 | #5,035 | 18 |
| 2011 | #5,063 | 27 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #3,961 | 38 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #4,013 | 38 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #3,376 | 49 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #2,978 | 57 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #4,487 | 30 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #3,265 | 46 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #3,412 | 42 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #2,527 | 62 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #2,126 | 77 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #2,277 | 68 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,914 | 82 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #1,646 | 98 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 | — | |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | — | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | — | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cyan! It came in at #10,912, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986–1992, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Cyan
- 445 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #5,722)
- 603 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #5,722)
- 111 spots since 2015 (#5,833 → #5,722)
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 1998 at #1,646 (98 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,030 girls born in 1998 were named Cyan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 76,537 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.5% of all girls named Cyan (509) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2020, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #10,912 (1986) | #10,912 |
| 1990s | 251 | #1,646 (1998) | #5,128 |
| 2000s | 509 | #2,126 (2001) | #3,240 |
| 2010s | 251 | #3,961 (2010) | #5,563 |
| 2020s | 102 | #5,722 (2025) | #6,813 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cyan in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 28,982 of them was named Cyan, which outranked 86.0% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,497Raine63
- #2,497Shakyra63
- #2,497Shruti63
- #2,527Cyan62
- #2,527Adamary62
- #2,527Alonna62
- #2,527Della62
- #2,554Adara61
- #2,554Aisling61
- #2,554Angelie61
Tied with 26 names at #2,527; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 242,689 of them was named Cyan, which outranked 38.8% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,055Zohair9
- #7,055Zyion9
- #7,055Zyshonne9
- #7,643Cyan8
- #7,643Aaliyah8
- #7,643Aasim8
- #7,643Abdon8
- #8,456Aaronjoseph7
- #8,456Abayomi7
- #8,456Abednego7
Tied with 812 names at #7,643; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.