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.
Where Killian is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#327 · 1 in 2,070
- Idaho#348 · 1 in 1,461
- New Mexico#363 · 1 in 1,766
- Nebraska#406 · 1 in 2,075
- Pennsylvania#447 · 1 in 3,270
Best ever in a state: #40 in Wyoming, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #327 | 15 | 1 in 2,070 |
| Idaho | #348 | 6 | 1 in 1,461 |
| New Mexico | #363 | 6 | 1 in 1,766 |
| Nebraska | #406 | 5 | 1 in 2,075 |
| Pennsylvania | #447 | 19 | 1 in 3,270 |
| Ohio | #454 | 20 | 1 in 3,133 |
| Iowa | #490 | 5 | 1 in 3,164 |
| Arizona | #538 | 11 | 1 in 3,630 |
| Indiana | #550 | 10 | 1 in 3,739 |
| Missouri | #550 | 9 | 1 in 3,718 |
| Colorado | #560 | 8 | 1 in 3,593 |
| Wisconsin | #563 | 7 | 1 in 4,100 |
| Washington | #566 | 10 | 1 in 3,696 |
| Oklahoma | #667 | 5 | 1 in 4,291 |
| Tennessee | #691 | 7 | 1 in 5,189 |
| Florida | #698 | 18 | 1 in 5,294 |
| Virginia | #838 | 6 | 1 in 7,026 |
| Texas | #873 | 23 | 1 in 8,107 |
| New York | #908 | 14 | 1 in 7,694 |
| New Jersey | #973 | 5 | 1 in 8,923 |
| Illinois | #992 | 8 | 1 in 9,069 |
| California | #1,012 | 21 | 1 in 11,531 |
| Georgia | #1,012 | 7 | 1 in 8,432 |
| Michigan | #1,042 | 5 | 1 in 9,871 |
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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 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 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 96,690 of them was named Killian, which outranked 66.3% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,544Zitlali20
- #6,544Zori20
- #6,544Zyria20
- #6,811Killian19
- #6,811Abrar19
- #6,811Abri19
- #6,811Adama19
- #7,066Aadhya18
- #7,066Abagale18
- #7,066Abiageal18
Tied with 254 names at #6,811; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 6,525 of them was named Killian, which outranked 94.8% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).