Boys' name · since 1995
Kishen
Kishen has 16 recorded births since 1995 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1996 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 16
- total births
- 1995–1997
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 100%
- born in that decade
Kishen is not among the current top-ranked boys names; 16 have been recorded since 1995.
Kishen has 16 recorded births among boys since 1995, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1995 to 1997.
- 16 total births
- 1995–1997 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 100% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kishen's 16 recorded births place it above 32% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kishen's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Kishen's full recorded timeline at 1996, 69% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 31% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1995, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1996 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Kishen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1995–1997
- Peak year (1996)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 3 years of records
Kishen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Kishen's strongest decade.
16 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Kishen births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
16 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 16 births (100% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1995–1997 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kishen: Baby Name Since 1995 - 16 Births, Peak 1996." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kishen. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kishen draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.