Kiaan
Kiaan was given to 255 boys in 2025, #925 among boys’ names; 2,842 Americans have been recorded with it since 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,820 Americans named Kiaan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiaan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kiaan?
#925 among boys’ names, 2025
Kiaan rose from #1,761 in 2015 to #925 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.15 per 1,000.
337 babies in 2021, the peak
Kiaan peaked in 2021, when 337 boys were given it, #752 among boys’ names. The 255 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 255 | #925 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 250 | #927 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 307 | #803 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 326 | #776 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 337 | #752 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 290 | #800 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 264 | #849 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 182 | #1,087 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 190 | #1,052 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 168 | #1,147 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #1,761 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 53 | #2,413 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,158 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,799 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 40 | #2,930 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,907 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiaan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiaan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kiaan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiaan, and how old are they?
2,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,842 Americans ever recorded as Kiaan. The median Kiaan alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 97 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,730 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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.
Where are babies named Kiaan born?
The states with the most babies named Kiaan are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 48 | #610 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 26 | #946 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 20 | #403 | 3.7× |
| New York | 17 | #821 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 14 | #517 | 1.7× |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #423 | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #727 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 11 | #821 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,165 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 10 | #707 | 1.2× |
Where Kiaan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kiaan is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 2010 it was given 3.7 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 boys’ 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 Kiaan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kiaan?
Kiaan is a less common spelling of Kian: SSA has recorded 2,842 Kiaan and 13,568 Kian since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 28,713 babies since 1880, Kiaan is the fourth most given (9.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 255 of their 1,567 babies (16%), the second most given that year.
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 Kiaan
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 Kiaan and names like it
- Compare Kiaan and KianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKiaan peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiaan since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Kiaan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kiaan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.