Killian
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · #417 for boys in 2025, 770 births
Given to boys 96.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 1,506 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 16,219since 1915
Killian over time
Rank among boys' names. Killian has never cracked the top 200 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 | #7,133 | 15 | #417 | 770 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | #370 | 885 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #367 | 884 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 | #364 | 903 |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 | #347 | 939 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #352 | 899 |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | #311 | 1,089 |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 | #287 | 1,229 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | #248 | 1,506 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | #264 | 1,382 |
| 2015 | #5,288 | 25 | #349 | 976 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #511 | 545 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | #767 | 294 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #818 | 270 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | #757 | 299 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #764 | 293 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | #752 | 304 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 | #799 | 274 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 | #837 | 255 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #1,036 | 176 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #1,035 | 162 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | #1,061 | 151 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #1,233 | 117 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 | #1,191 | 117 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 | #1,100 | 129 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | #1,040 | 139 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #1,158 | 113 |
| 1998 | #4,955 | 21 | #999 | 137 |
| 1997 | #3,448 | 33 | #931 | 145 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #908 | 145 |
| 1995 | #4,846 | 20 | #956 | 135 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #1,178 | 94 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | #1,155 | 94 |
| 1992 | #4,528 | 22 | #1,340 | 71 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | #1,297 | 75 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | #1,216 | 81 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | #1,516 | 54 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #2,599 | 22 |
| 1987 | — | #4,573 | 9 | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | — | #4,333 | 9 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
| 1982 | — | #4,234 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Killian! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1981, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Killian
- 47 spots since 2024 (#370 → #417)
- 65 spots since 2020 (#352 → #417)
- 68 spots since 2015 (#349 → #417)
- Biggest jump: 256 spots in 2014 (#767 → #511)
- Biggest drop: 159 spots in 1999 (#999 → #1,158)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2017 at #248 (1,506 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 2007–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,229 boys born in 2017 were named Killian (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,218 boys born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 48.6% of all boys named Killian (7,883) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,825 (1915) | #3,825 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,286 (1920) | #4,286 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 132 | #1,516 (1989) | #3,726 |
| 1990s | 1,090 | #908 (1996) | #1,114 |
| 2000s | 1,824 | #752 (2009) | #1,008 |
| 2010s | 7,883 | #248 (2017) | #508 |
| 2020s | 5,280 | #347 (2021) | #370 |
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.
Killian in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 109,563 of them was named Killian, which outranked 63.7% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,531Yakelin17
- #5,531Zahraa17
- #5,531Zari17
- #5,771Killian16
- #5,771Adelita16
- #5,771Agustina16
- #5,771Aixa16
- #6,064Aarika15
- #6,064Adair15
- #6,064Adrieanna15
Tied with 292 names at #5,771; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 13,064 of them was named Killian, which outranked 91.4% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).