Kiran
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · #1,267 for boys in 2025, 155 births
Given to boys 62.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 155 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,165since 1970
Kiran over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #6,546 | 17 | #1,267 | 155 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #1,344 | 142 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #1,591 | 109 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | #1,611 | 108 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #1,503 | 118 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #1,609 | 100 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #1,698 | 93 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | #1,648 | 98 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 | #1,612 | 99 |
| 2016 | #4,345 | 33 | #1,563 | 105 |
| 2015 | #4,403 | 32 | #1,388 | 124 |
| 2014 | #3,925 | 38 | #1,608 | 97 |
| 2013 | #4,002 | 37 | #1,444 | 114 |
| 2012 | #3,711 | 42 | #1,398 | 119 |
| 2011 | #3,550 | 44 | #1,544 | 102 |
| 2010 | #3,889 | 39 | #1,558 | 102 |
| 2009 | #2,892 | 60 | #1,443 | 116 |
| 2008 | #2,419 | 79 | #1,414 | 119 |
| 2007 | #2,457 | 76 | #1,713 | 88 |
| 2006 | #2,512 | 73 | #1,605 | 90 |
| 2005 | #2,457 | 71 | #1,584 | 87 |
| 2004 | #2,503 | 67 | #1,530 | 87 |
| 2003 | #2,522 | 64 | #1,561 | 81 |
| 2002 | #2,158 | 77 | #1,660 | 71 |
| 2001 | #2,600 | 58 | #2,007 | 53 |
| 2000 | #2,593 | 57 | #1,968 | 52 |
| 1999 | #2,567 | 55 | #1,710 | 61 |
| 1998 | #2,307 | 61 | #2,068 | 45 |
| 1997 | #3,161 | 37 | #2,396 | 34 |
| 1996 | #2,423 | 53 | #2,218 | 37 |
| 1995 | #2,788 | 43 | #3,100 | 22 |
| 1994 | #2,797 | 43 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1992 | #4,088 | 25 | #2,747 | 25 |
| 1991 | #2,989 | 38 | #3,105 | 20 |
| 1990 | #3,813 | 27 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #3,045 | 35 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #3,165 | 31 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | #3,983 | 21 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #2,845 | 33 | #3,882 | 11 |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 | #2,956 | 15 |
| 1983 | #3,431 | 23 | #2,787 | 16 |
| 1982 | #3,344 | 25 | #2,709 | 17 |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #3,609 | 22 | #2,729 | 17 |
| 1979 | #3,777 | 20 | #3,018 | 14 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #4,069 | 17 | #2,910 | 14 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 | #2,709 | 15 |
| 1975 | #3,052 | 23 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | — | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | #3,521 | 8 |
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| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | — | |
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First appearance
1970
The first year at least five boys were named Kiran! It came in at #3,521, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1973, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Rising
- 77 spots since 2024 (#1,344 → #1,267)
- 342 spots since 2020 (#1,609 → #1,267)
- 121 spots since 2015 (#1,388 → #1,267)
Rise & fade · boys
55 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2025 at #1,267 (155 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,020
- Highest: 1 in 11,020 boys born in 2025 were named Kiran (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 33.3% of all boys named Kiran (1,053) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2003
- Mostly girls until 2002, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 87 | #2,709 (1976) | #3,515 |
| 1980s | 139 | #2,709 (1982) | #3,430 |
| 1990s | 310 | #1,710 (1999) | #2,732 |
| 2000s | 844 | #1,414 (2008) | #1,649 |
| 2010s | 1,053 | #1,388 (2015) | #1,546 |
| 2020s | 732 | #1,267 (2025) | #1,488 |
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.
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