Kyan
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #2,020 for boys in 2025, 74 births
Given to boys 95.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2004 · 379 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,786since 1977
Kyan over time
Rank among boys' names. Kyan has never cracked the top 500 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #2,020 | 74 |
| 2024 | — | #1,938 | 81 | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #1,909 | 82 |
| 2022 | — | #2,325 | 61 | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #1,799 | 87 |
| 2020 | — | #1,423 | 121 | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #1,420 | 123 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #1,530 | 111 |
| 2017 | — | #1,341 | 133 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,203 | 157 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #1,205 | 153 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #1,296 | 137 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #1,186 | 151 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #1,102 | 169 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #983 | 199 |
| 2010 | — | #1,023 | 189 | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #1,099 | 168 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #960 | 209 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 | #1,038 | 181 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #901 | 216 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #701 | 293 |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 | #587 | 379 |
| 2003 | — | #1,497 | 86 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #2,882 | 32 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #3,321 | 26 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | — | #3,480 | 22 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,314 | 9 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,601 | 19 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,878 | 12 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,791 | 12 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,372 | 8 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,360 | 10 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
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| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
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| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kyan! It came in at #5,845, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1981, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kyan is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#531 · 1 in 3,651
- Utah#562 · 1 in 3,284
- Oregon#588 · 1 in 3,863
- Wisconsin#643 · 1 in 4,783
- Washington#718 · 1 in 5,280
Best ever in a state: #169 in Hawaii, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | #531 | 8 | 1 in 3,651 |
| Utah | #562 | 7 | 1 in 3,284 |
| Oregon | #588 | 5 | 1 in 3,863 |
| Wisconsin | #643 | 6 | 1 in 4,783 |
| Washington | #718 | 7 | 1 in 5,280 |
| Colorado | #743 | 5 | 1 in 5,749 |
| Indiana | #769 | 6 | 1 in 6,231 |
| New York | #868 | 15 | 1 in 7,181 |
| Illinois | #992 | 8 | 1 in 9,069 |
| California | #1,075 | 19 | 1 in 12,744 |
| North Carolina | #1,115 | 5 | 1 in 10,767 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,128 | 5 | 1 in 12,424 |
| Ohio | #1,158 | 5 | 1 in 12,531 |
| Florida | #1,302 | 7 | 1 in 13,614 |
| Texas | #1,828 | 7 | 1 in 26,637 |
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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 Kyan
- 82 spots since 2024 (#1,938 → #2,020)
- 597 spots since 2020 (#1,423 → #2,020)
- 815 spots since 2015 (#1,205 → #2,020)
- Biggest jump: 910 spots in 2004 (#1,497 → #587)
- Biggest drop: 200 spots in 2006 (#701 → #901)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2004 at #587 (379 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2004–2006
- Highest: 1 in 5,237 boys born in 2004 were named Kyan (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 23,082 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.5% of all boys named Kyan (1,610) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,845 (1977) | #5,845 |
| 1980s | 37 | #5,619 (1982) | #6,480 |
| 1990s | 106 | #3,480 (1999) | #5,345 |
| 2000s | 1,610 | #587 (2004) | #1,691 |
| 2010s | 1,522 | #983 (2011) | #1,229 |
| 2020s | 506 | #1,423 (2020) | #1,902 |
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.
Kyan 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 262,445 of them was named Kyan, which outranked 32.2% 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).
- #12,429Zymeria8
- #12,429Zynia8
- #12,429Zyrah8
- #13,704Kyan7
- #13,704Aadyn7
- #13,704Aahna7
- #13,704Aairah7
- #15,242Aadison6
- #15,242Aahliyah6
- #15,242Aaila6
Tied with 1,537 names at #13,704; 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 11,807 of them was named Kyan, which outranked 92.4% 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).