Kiran — #1344 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kiran

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,009 babies named Kiran between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kiran currently holds the #1344 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 142 babies received it in a single year. Kiran is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,859 additional births since 1966.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kiran performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,053 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kiran shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 468 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kiran in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kiran 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 3,009 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.