Kiani
Kiani was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,609 among girls’ names; 1,326 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Kiani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kiani?
#4,609 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiani rose from #6,856 in 2015 to #4,609 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.1 to 18.7 per million.
51 babies in 1994, the peak
Kiani peaked in 1994, when 51 babies were given it (46 girls, #2,683 among girls’ names). The 30 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,609 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,431 | 19.8 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,152 | 21.8 |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,004 | 22.6 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,520 | 26.8 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,243 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,825 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,905 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,251 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,077 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,856 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,381 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,959 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,226 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,810 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,664 | 24.2 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,533 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,896 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,169 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,487 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,997 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,865 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,911 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,433 | 22.3 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,663 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,919 | 27.0 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,074 | 24.2 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,944 | 24.9 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,796 | 25.3 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,534 | 28.5 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,813 | 24.5 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,683 | 25.8 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,723 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,942 | 21.7 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,089 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,394 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,008 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,389 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,271 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,326 Americans recorded as Kiani, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 30 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kiani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiani, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,326 Americans ever recorded as Kiani. The median Kiani alive today is 22 years old; half are between 12 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,028 people named Kiani (953 women and girls, 75 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,119 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 325 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 612 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 373 |
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 Kiani born?
The states with the most babies named Kiani are California, Hawaii and New York, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Hawaii is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 212 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Hawaii | 155 | not ranked | 29.8× |
| New York | 46 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 26 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Kiani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kiani is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1987 it was given 29.8 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 Kiani 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 46,258 babies since 1880, Kiani is the eighth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 652 babies (4.6%), the fourth 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 Kiani
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 Kiani and names like it
- Compare Kiani and KianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKiani peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiani since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Kiani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kiani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.