Jian
Jian is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 22 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,480 among girls’ names and #4,610 among boys’, #8,162 among all names counting both); 642 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jian?
#4,610 among boys’ names, 2025
Jian rose from #5,159 in 2015 to #4,610 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.4 to 12.9 per million.
31 babies in 2019, the peak
Jian peaked in 2019, when 31 babies were given it (25 boys, #4,167 among boys’ names). The 29 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 94% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,610 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,313 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,147 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 29 | #3,811 | 16.6 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,296 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,344 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,167 | 13.9 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,287 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,658 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,394 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,159 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,961 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,529 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,934 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,218 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,133 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,658 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,462 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,522 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,649 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,545 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,619 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,776 | 11.6 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,245 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,822 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,092 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,248 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,287 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,801 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,502 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,304 | 5.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,170 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,014 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,821 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,893 | 4.0 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,755 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,644 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 642 Americans recorded as Jian, 7% are girls and 93% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jian, and how old are they?
An estimated 633 Americans named Jian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 9,308 people named Jian (2,488 women and girls, 6,820 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 508 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,850 babies since 1880, Jian is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 106 babies (27%), again the second 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 Jian
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 Jian and names like it
- Compare Jian and JinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJian peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jian since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Jian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.