Kilian
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #13,799 · #1,166 for boys in 2025, 177 births
Given to boys 99.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 212 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,690since 1970
Kilian over time
Rank among boys' names. Kilian has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #1,166 | 177 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,053 | 209 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,031 | 212 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,220 | 161 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,170 | 168 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,222 | 154 | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #1,354 | 132 |
| 2018 | — | #1,261 | 145 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,159 | 162 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,180 | 161 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,334 | 132 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,679 | 91 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,804 | 41 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,209 | 59 | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #2,904 | 40 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #2,787 | 43 |
| 2009 | — | #2,623 | 47 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,753 | 44 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,135 | 36 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,083 | 35 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,615 | 26 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | — | #3,976 | 21 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,044 | 20 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,864 | 32 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,640 | 22 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,182 | 25 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,486 | 21 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #3,455 | 20 |
| 1996 | — | #2,911 | 25 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,847 | 25 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,326 | 20 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,246 | 20 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,532 | 28 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,636 | 16 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,309 | 18 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,271 | 12 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,450 | 10 | |
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| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
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| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kilian! It came in at #4,724, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1971, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kilian
- 113 spots since 2024 (#1,053 → #1,166)
- 56 spots since 2020 (#1,222 → #1,166)
- 168 spots since 2015 (#1,334 → #1,166)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2023 at #1,031 (212 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,069 boys born in 2023 were named Kilian (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,650 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.2% of all boys named Kilian (1,081) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 37 | #3,941 (1975) | #4,704 |
| 1980s | 33 | #4,271 (1989) | #5,167 |
| 1990s | 218 | #2,532 (1992) | #3,193 |
| 2000s | 315 | #2,623 (2009) | #3,281 |
| 2010s | 1,006 | #1,159 (2017) | #1,867 |
| 2020s | 1,081 | #1,031 (2023) | #1,144 |
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.
Kilian in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 11,208 of them was named Kilian, which outranked 91.3% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,215Jessie155
- #1,215Lenox155
- #1,215Rogan155
- #1,222Kilian154
- #1,222Gino154
- #1,222Lucius154
- #1,225Brysen153
- #1,225Casper153
- #1,225Cormac153
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.