Khian
Khian was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,224 among boys’ names; 94 Americans have been recorded with it since 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khian?
#10,224 among boys’ names, 2025
Khian fell from #9,191 in 2015 to #10,224 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 4.1 per million.
11 babies in 2014, the peak
Khian peaked in 2014, when 11 boys were given it, #7,316 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,224 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,670 | 5.2 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,167 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,194 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,525 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,533 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,511 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,191 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,316 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,583 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #11,545 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,494 | 3.5 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,601 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khian has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khian, and how old are they?
An estimated 93 Americans named Khian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Khian is a less common spelling of Kian: SSA has recorded 94 Khian and 13,568 Kian since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Khian
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.