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
- 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
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 | #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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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.
See more about Kiran
- 77 spots since 2024 (#1,344 → #1,267)
- 342 spots since 2020 (#1,609 → #1,267)
- 121 spots since 2015 (#1,388 → #1,267)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2025 at #1,267 (155 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,020 boys born in 2025 were named Kiran (0.01%)
- 33.3% of all boys named Kiran (1,053) were born in this decade
- 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.
Kiran in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 94,545 of them was named Kiran, which outranked 62.2% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #6,325Zophia18
- #6,325Zuria18
- #6,325Zyelle18
- #6,546Kiran17
- #6,546Aaron17
- #6,546Abbygail17
- #6,546Acsa17
- #6,838Adda16
- #6,838Adisson16
- #6,838Ahlaya16
Tied with 291 names at #6,546; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 11,020 of them was named Kiran, which outranked 90.9% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,263Lael156
- #1,263Riot156
- #1,263Ripley156
- #1,267Kiran155
- #1,267Aksel155
- #1,267Dion155
- #1,267Emil155
- #1,276Andreas154
- #1,276Krish154
- #1,276Octavio154
Tied with 8 names at #1,267; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.