Kirin
Kirin was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,092 among boys’ names; 983 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kirin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kirin?
#4,092 among boys’ names, 2025
Kirin fell from #3,940 in 2015 to #4,092 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 14.1 to 15.2 per million.
47 babies in 2011, the peak
Kirin peaked in 2011, when 47 babies were given it (30 boys, #3,559 among boys’ names). The 26 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 26 | #4,092 | |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,415 | 39 | #3,136 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,456 | 12 | #7,114 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,509 | 35 | #3,381 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,416 | 29 | #3,778 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,388 | 23 | #4,350 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,153 | 36 | #3,227 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 19 | #5,021 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,077 | 13 | #6,513 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,500 | 26 | #4,050 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,831 | 27 | #3,940 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,485 | 30 | #3,574 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,940 | 18 | #5,080 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,089 | 25 | #4,077 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,280 | 30 | #3,559 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,525 | 20 | #4,770 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,291 | 19 | #5,031 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,756 | 22 | #4,476 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,587 | 22 | #4,441 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,686 | 17 | #5,199 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,119 | 12 | #6,444 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,199 | 14 | #5,649 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,407 | 11 | #6,519 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,904 | 14 | #5,273 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,073 | 6 | #9,982 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,299 | 6 | #9,770 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,533 | 7 | #8,337 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,718 | 6 | #9,113 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,437 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,197 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,800 | 6 | #8,388 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,888 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,375 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,396 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,863 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,859 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,211 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,413 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,421 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,955 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,734 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,647 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,598 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,548 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,215 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,535 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,001 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kirin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 983 Americans recorded as Kirin, 42% are girls and 58% boys. In 2025 it went to 26 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kirin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kirin, and how old are they?
An estimated 971 Americans named Kirin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 900 people named Kirin (453 women and girls, 447 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 789 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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).
Where are babies named Kirin born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,650 | 1.0× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kirin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 40,153 babies since 1880, Kirin is the seventh most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 1,771 babies (1.5%), again the seventh most given.
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 Kirin
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 Kirin and names like it
- Compare Kirin and KieranBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKirin peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kirin since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Kirin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kirin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.