Kian
Kian was given to 797 boys in 2025, #401 among boys’ names; 13,568 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,400 Americans named Kian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kian is “a male given name from Irish, anglicized spelling of Cian.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kian?
#401 among boys’ names, 2025
Kian rose from #489 in 2015 to #401 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.31 to 0.47 per 1,000.
803 babies in 2025, the peak
Kian peaked in 2025, when 803 babies were given it (797 boys, #401 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 770 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 797 | #401 | 0.47 |
| 2024 | 770 | #417 | 0.45 |
| 2023 | 732 | #428 | 0.43 |
| 2022 | 675 | #456 | 0.39 |
| 2021 | 671 | #453 | 0.38 |
| 2020 | 659 | #451 | 0.38 |
| 2019 | 618 | #475 | 0.34 |
| 2018 | 675 | #447 | 0.37 |
| 2017 | 676 | #453 | 0.37 |
| 2016 | 608 | #498 | 0.32 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 602 | #489 | 0.31 |
| 2014 | 568 | #495 | 0.30 |
| 2013 | 441 | #582 | 0.23 |
| 2012 | 420 | #603 | 0.22 |
| 2011 | 408 | #606 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 436 | #580 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 433 | #597 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 412 | #608 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 357 | #671 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 309 | #708 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 288 | #711 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 264 | #722 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 199 | #868 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 193 | #860 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 171 | #914 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 161 | #943 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 124 | #1,082 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 96 | #1,264 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 97 | #1,215 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 104 | #1,144 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 65 | #1,478 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 42 | #1,994 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 49 | #1,751 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 41 | #1,962 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 39 | #1,965 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 41 | #1,882 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,381 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,648 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,418 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,649 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,702 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,292 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,533 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,406 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,731 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,741 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,744 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,308 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,491 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,297 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,156 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,956 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,898 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,174 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,103 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kian has been given almost only to boys: 111 girls in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kian, and how old are they?
13,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,568 Americans ever recorded as Kian. The median Kian alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 9,366 people named Kian (267 women and girls, 9,099 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,314 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 82 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 530 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,470 |
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. 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 Kian born?
The states with the most babies named Kian are California, Texas and Florida, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 160 | #233 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 76 | #446 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 53 | #371 | 0.8× |
| New York | 49 | #365 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 27 | #421 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 26 | #422 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 25 | #341 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 24 | #453 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 23 | #359 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 22 | #344 | 1.5× |
Where Kian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kian is most over-represented in California: since 1970 it was given 1.6 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 Kian 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 29,024 babies since 1880, Kian is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 803 of their 1,576 babies (51%), again the 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 Kian
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 Kian and names like it
- Compare Kian and KyanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKian peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kian since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.