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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 85,273 of them was named Cyan, which outranked 65.2% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,962Zoraya20
- #5,962Zuleyma20
- #5,962Zunairah20
- #6,167Cyan19
- #6,167Aarushi19
- #6,167Abi19
- #6,167Adalin19
- #6,394Aaliah18
- #6,394Aarika18
- #6,394Abygail18
Tied with 226 names at #6,167; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 42,022 of them was named Cyan, which outranked 79.0% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,958Wilbur42
- #2,958Willard42
- #2,958Yaqub42
- #3,001Cyan41
- #3,001Amelio41
- #3,001Amire41
- #3,001Cliff41
- #3,045Aarvik40
- #3,045Abhay40
- #3,045Alim40
Tied with 43 names at #3,001; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.