Kior — #3432 US unisex name
317 babies named Kior in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 81% of names given to girls today.
79% of everyone ever named Kior was born in this single decade.
61 babies were named Kior in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kior
The Social Security Administration has registered 317 babies named Kior between 2017 and 2024, spanning 8 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kior currently holds the #3432 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 61 babies received it in a single year. Kior is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 123 additional births since 2020.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kior performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 252 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Kior shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 33 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Kior in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kior 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 317 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.
Kior at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kior popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2017
- Peak year (2022)
- 61
- Annual births at peak — across 8 years of records
Currently ranks #3432 among girls.
317 total births across 8 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 61 births in a single year.
Kior popularity over time — boys
123 total births recorded since 2020 (Kior as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Kior accounts for 28% of total recorded use across both genders.
Kior by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 252 births that decade — 79% of Kior's all-time total
Kior decade highlights
- Peak decade 252 births
- Runner-up 65 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Kior's strongest decade
252 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 79% of all-time use.
Kior by state
Where Kior concentrates geographically — total births since 2017
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 33 | 10.4% |
| #2 | Georgia | | 29 | 9.1% |
| #3 | Florida | | 12 | 3.8% |
| #4 | Louisiana | | 11 | 3.5% |
| #5 | Illinois | | 10 | 3.2% |
| #6 | New Jersey | | 5 | 1.6% |
| #7 | Ohio | | 5 | 1.6% |
33 of 317 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 10.4% of nationwide
- Georgia 9.1% of nationwide
- Florida 3.8% of nationwide
- Louisiana 3.5% of nationwide
- Illinois 3.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 10.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2017–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.