Kieran — #440 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kieran

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,788 babies named Kieran between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kieran currently holds the #440 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 713 babies received it in a single year. Kieran is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,594 additional births since 1949.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kieran performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,279 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Kieran shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 2,229 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Kieran in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kieran in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 16,788 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.