Kieran
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #389 for boys in 2025, 817 births
Given to boys 91.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 817 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 17,613since 1918
Kieran 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 | #8,860 | 11 | #389 | 817 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #440 | 716 |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 | #477 | 636 |
| 2022 | #4,472 | 31 | #490 | 621 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #493 | 598 |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 | #514 | 558 |
| 2019 | #5,163 | 25 | #493 | 581 |
| 2018 | #5,619 | 22 | #497 | 579 |
| 2017 | #4,220 | 34 | #512 | 567 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 | #539 | 540 |
| 2015 | #4,725 | 29 | #512 | 560 |
| 2014 | #4,350 | 33 | #575 | 483 |
| 2013 | #4,156 | 35 | #557 | 471 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 | #554 | 470 |
| 2011 | #3,222 | 51 | #474 | 562 |
| 2010 | #3,123 | 53 | #540 | 469 |
| 2009 | #2,800 | 63 | #510 | 528 |
| 2008 | #2,718 | 67 | #532 | 502 |
| 2007 | #2,433 | 77 | #571 | 450 |
| 2006 | #3,090 | 54 | #562 | 445 |
| 2005 | #2,902 | 56 | #571 | 408 |
| 2004 | #2,851 | 56 | #544 | 425 |
| 2003 | #2,923 | 52 | #537 | 429 |
| 2002 | #2,673 | 57 | #554 | 399 |
| 2001 | #2,700 | 55 | #533 | 410 |
| 2000 | #2,708 | 54 | #528 | 416 |
| 1999 | #2,438 | 59 | #596 | 319 |
| 1998 | #2,338 | 60 | #625 | 292 |
| 1997 | #3,224 | 36 | #642 | 259 |
| 1996 | #2,849 | 42 | #623 | 278 |
| 1995 | #3,422 | 32 | #638 | 265 |
| 1994 | #3,536 | 31 | #680 | 233 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 | #754 | 192 |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 | #961 | 125 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #1,055 | 105 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #1,013 | 109 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #1,154 | 84 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | #1,286 | 64 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | #1,259 | 60 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | #1,217 | 62 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 | #1,158 | 65 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | #1,033 | 74 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 | #1,327 | 49 |
| 1982 | #4,025 | 19 | #1,210 | 59 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #1,309 | 50 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | #1,449 | 43 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | #1,304 | 50 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #1,326 | 47 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #1,390 | 43 |
| 1976 | — | #1,541 | 35 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,361 | 41 | |
| 1974 | #4,041 | 15 | #1,439 | 36 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #1,329 | 39 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #1,680 | 27 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | #1,127 | 53 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | #1,253 | 44 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | #1,440 | 31 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | #1,282 | 35 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | #1,150 | 42 |
| 1966 | — | #1,194 | 39 | |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | #1,094 | 46 |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 | #1,236 | 39 |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | #1,354 | 33 |
| 1962 | — | #1,367 | 33 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,262 | 39 | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | #1,295 | 37 |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 | #1,387 | 32 |
| 1958 | — | #1,321 | 34 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,487 | 28 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,676 | 22 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,503 | 26 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,316 | 12 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,709 | 20 | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | #1,804 | 18 |
| 1951 | — | #2,246 | 12 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,746 | 18 | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | #2,606 | 9 |
| 1948 | — | #2,326 | 11 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,884 | 15 | |
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,309 | 10 | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | #2,940 | 7 | |
| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,829 | 7 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,646 | 8 | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,563 | 9 | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,651 | 9 | |
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| 1929 | — | #2,980 | 8 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1926 | — | #3,385 | 7 | |
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| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
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| 1921 | — | #3,214 | 8 | |
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| 1918 | — | #3,096 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kieran! It came in at #3,096, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1920, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kieran
- 51 spots since 2024 (#440 → #389)
- 125 spots since 2020 (#514 → #389)
- 123 spots since 2015 (#512 → #389)
- Biggest jump: 207 spots in 1993 (#961 → #754)
- Biggest drop: 80 spots in 2012 (#474 → #554)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 2025 at #389 (817 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 1992–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,091 boys born in 2025 were named Kieran (0.05%)
- 30.0% of all boys named Kieran (5,282) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 8 | #3,096 (1918) | #3,096 |
| 1920s | 38 | #2,980 (1929) | #3,719 |
| 1930s | 48 | #2,563 (1934) | #3,094 |
| 1940s | 81 | #1,884 (1946) | #2,670 |
| 1950s | 222 | #1,321 (1958) | #1,720 |
| 1960s | 374 | #1,094 (1965) | #1,267 |
| 1970s | 415 | #1,127 (1971) | #1,375 |
| 1980s | 610 | #1,033 (1984) | #1,240 |
| 1990s | 2,177 | #596 (1999) | #759 |
| 2000s | 4,412 | #510 (2009) | #544 |
| 2010s | 5,282 | #474 (2011) | #525 |
| 2020s | 3,946 | #389 (2025) | #467 |
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.
Kieran in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 57,605 of them was named Kieran, which outranked 77.6% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,448Whitnee32
- #3,448Yocheved32
- #3,448Zoila32
- #3,536Kieran31
- #3,536Adelle31
- #3,536Alessia31
- #3,536Alida31
- #3,615Ajia30
- #3,615Alyxandria30
- #3,615Amaya30
Tied with 78 names at #3,536; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 8,292 of them was named Kieran, which outranked 93.4% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.