Kieron
Kieron was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,059 among boys’ names; 730 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kieron by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kieron mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kieron is “a male given name from Irish.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kieron?
#13,059 among boys’ names, 2025
Kieron fell from #6,532 in 2015 to #13,059 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 2.9 per million.
31 babies in 2000, the peak
Kieron peaked in 2000, when 31 boys were given it, #2,891 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,059 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,446 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,609 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,518 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,891 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,360 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,269 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,253 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,889 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,931 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,532 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,879 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,091 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,548 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,328 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,055 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,515 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,335 | 11.3 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,567 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,676 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,269 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,512 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,731 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,980 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,674 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,891 | 15.8 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,325 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,307 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,155 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,160 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,968 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,672 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,870 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,225 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,750 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,290 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,915 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,799 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,634 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,309 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,185 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,873 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,022 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,333 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,754 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,792 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,745 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,327 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,511 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,693 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,633 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,825 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,491 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,531 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,179 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,456 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,929 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,271 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,261 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,209 | 2.7 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,094 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kieron a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kieron has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kieron: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kieron, and how old are they?
An estimated 702 Americans named Kieron and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 768 people named Kieron (43 women and girls, 725 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 664 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 35,850 babies since 1880, Kieron is the seventh most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 1,283 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Kieron
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 Kieron and names like it
- Compare Kieron and KieranBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKieron peaked in 2000.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Kieron: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Kieron.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kieron alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.