Ciani
Ciani was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,442 among girls’ names; 726 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ciani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ciani?
#5,442 among girls’ names, 2025
Ciani rose from #9,619 in 2015 to #5,442 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 14.3 per million.
45 babies in 2006, the peak
Ciani peaked in 2006, when 45 girls were given it, #3,518 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,442 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,483 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,145 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,133 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,124 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,293 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,883 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,293 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,125 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,019 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,619 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,178 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,031 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,208 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,288 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,816 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,957 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,785 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,230 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,518 | 23.7 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,205 | 17.9 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,449 | 23.4 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,743 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,406 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,560 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,531 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,450 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,514 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,255 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,761 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,016 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,765 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,579 | 2.7 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,488 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ciani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ciani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ciani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ciani, and how old are they?
An estimated 718 Americans named Ciani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 575 people named Ciani (567 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 624 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ciani born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 283 | not ranked | 10.0× |
| New Jersey | 64 | not ranked | 3.0× |
Where Ciani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ciani is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1979 it was given 10.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ciani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 35,539 babies since 1880, Ciani is the fifth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 565 babies (4.1%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ciani
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ciani and names like it
- Compare Ciani and KianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCiani peaked in 2006.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ciani since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Ciani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ciani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.