Kinan
Kinan was given to 32 boys in 2025, #3,557 among boys’ names; 371 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kinan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kinan?
#3,557 among boys’ names, 2025
Kinan rose from #4,477 in 2015 to #3,557 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 18.7 per million.
33 babies in 2022, the peak
Kinan peaked in 2022, when 33 boys were given it, #3,501 among boys’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #3,557 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,382 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,073 | 15.8 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,501 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,542 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,457 | 18.5 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,718 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,431 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,674 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,553 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,477 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,169 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,836 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,594 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,437 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,388 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,377 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,421 | 2.9 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,265 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,681 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,978 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,380 | 2.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,098 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kinan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kinan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kinan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kinan, and how old are they?
An estimated 368 Americans named Kinan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 293 people named Kinan (14 women and girls, 279 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 197 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% 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 28,554 babies since 1880, Kinan is the eighth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 1,586 babies (2.0%), the seventh 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 Kinan
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 Kinan and names like it
- Compare Kinan and KianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKinan peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kinan since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Kinan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kinan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.