Kian
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #400 for boys in 2025, 797 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 797 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 13,457since 1970
Kian over time
Rank among boys' names. Kian has never cracked the top 400 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #400 | 797 |
| 2024 | — | #417 | 770 | |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #428 | 732 |
| 2022 | — | #456 | 675 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #453 | 671 |
| 2020 | — | #451 | 659 | |
| 2019 | — | #475 | 618 | |
| 2018 | — | #446 | 675 | |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #453 | 676 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #498 | 608 |
| 2015 | — | #489 | 602 | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #495 | 568 |
| 2013 | — | #582 | 441 | |
| 2012 | — | #603 | 420 | |
| 2011 | — | #604 | 408 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #580 | 436 |
| 2009 | — | #597 | 433 | |
| 2008 | — | #607 | 412 | |
| 2007 | — | #671 | 357 | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #707 | 309 |
| 2005 | — | #710 | 288 | |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #722 | 264 |
| 2003 | — | #867 | 199 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #859 | 193 |
| 2001 | — | #912 | 171 | |
| 2000 | — | #942 | 161 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,080 | 124 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,261 | 96 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #1,212 | 97 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #1,141 | 104 |
| 1995 | — | #1,477 | 65 | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #1,977 | 42 |
| 1993 | — | #1,741 | 49 | |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #1,955 | 41 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #1,952 | 39 |
| 1990 | — | #1,870 | 41 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,325 | 17 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #2,599 | 22 |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,601 | 20 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,599 | 12 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | — | #3,411 | 12 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #2,680 | 17 |
| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,215 | 12 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,386 | 11 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kian! It came in at #4,724, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1972, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Kian is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#251 · 1 in 935
- Massachusetts#285 · 1 in 1,426
- Utah#286 · 1 in 1,129
- New Jersey#293 · 1 in 1,352
- California#295 · 1 in 1,403
Best ever in a state: #97 in District of Columbia, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | #251 | 17 | 1 in 935 |
| Massachusetts | #285 | 20 | 1 in 1,426 |
| Utah | #286 | 17 | 1 in 1,129 |
| New Jersey | #293 | 30 | 1 in 1,352 |
| California | #295 | 135 | 1 in 1,403 |
| Washington | #300 | 26 | 1 in 1,285 |
| Virginia | #348 | 24 | 1 in 1,629 |
| Texas | #437 | 74 | 1 in 2,312 |
| New York | #443 | 35 | 1 in 2,547 |
| Nevada | #445 | 6 | 1 in 1,976 |
| Pennsylvania | #462 | 21 | 1 in 2,641 |
| Georgia | #472 | 21 | 1 in 2,398 |
| Colorado | #485 | 11 | 1 in 2,348 |
| Indiana | #493 | 14 | 1 in 2,340 |
| Minnesota | #503 | 10 | 1 in 2,514 |
| Oklahoma | #503 | 8 | 1 in 2,244 |
| Tennessee | #504 | 14 | 1 in 2,560 |
| Florida | #506 | 31 | 1 in 2,992 |
| Arizona | #508 | 13 | 1 in 2,509 |
| Missouri | #510 | 11 | 1 in 2,595 |
| Maryland | #529 | 9 | 1 in 2,772 |
| Illinois | #534 | 18 | 1 in 2,995 |
| North Carolina | #562 | 16 | 1 in 3,190 |
| Ohio | #571 | 16 | 1 in 3,388 |
| Michigan | #613 | 12 | 1 in 3,581 |
| Louisiana | #717 | 6 | 1 in 3,623 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kian
- 17 spots since 2024 (#417 → #400)
- 51 spots since 2020 (#451 → #400)
- 89 spots since 2015 (#489 → #400)
- Biggest jump: 145 spots in 2004 (#867 → #722)
- Biggest drop: 29 spots in 2019 (#446 → #475)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2025 at #400 (797 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2000–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,143 boys born in 2025 were named Kian (0.05%)
- 40.5% of all boys named Kian (5,452) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 78 | #3,078 (1975) | #4,197 |
| 1980s | 138 | #2,599 (1988) | #3,520 |
| 1990s | 698 | #1,080 (1999) | #1,567 |
| 2000s | 2,787 | #597 (2009) | #759 |
| 2010s | 5,452 | #446 (2018) | #523 |
| 2020s | 4,304 | #400 (2025) | #434 |
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.
Kian in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 328,172 of them was named Kian, which outranked 13.7% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,425 names at #15,251; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 2,607 of them was named Kian, which outranked 96.8% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.