Kiyan
Kiyan was given to 200 boys in 2025, #1,076 among boys’ names; 2,188 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,170 Americans named Kiyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kiyan?
#1,076 among boys’ names, 2025
Kiyan rose from #1,376 in 2015 to #1,076 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.12 per 1,000.
200 babies in 2025, the peak
Kiyan peaked in 2025, when 200 boys were given it, #1,076 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 135 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 200 | #1,076 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 135 | #1,392 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 135 | #1,383 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 105 | #1,645 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 104 | #1,626 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 103 | #1,587 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 101 | #1,630 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 111 | #1,534 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,474 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,594 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 126 | #1,376 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 148 | #1,232 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 159 | #1,142 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 172 | #1,088 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,575 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 48 | #2,571 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,846 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,991 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,192 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,196 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,446 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,138 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,163 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,908 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,531 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,604 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,849 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,114 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,977 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,192 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,188 Americans recorded as Kiyan, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 200 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 Kiyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiyan, and how old are they?
2,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,188 Americans ever recorded as Kiyan. The median Kiyan alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,216 people named Kiyan (81 women and girls, 1,135 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,421 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 516 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,640 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Kiyan born?
The states with the most babies named Kiyan are New York, California and Texas, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 20 | #733 | 1.6× |
| California | 20 | #1,063 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,195 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #507 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 14 | #984 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 11 | #822 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #772 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 9 | #765 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,077 | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #665 | 0.5× |
Where Kiyan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kiyan is most over-represented in New York: since 1995 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Kiyan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kiyan?
Kiyan is a less common spelling of Kian: SSA has recorded 2,188 Kiyan and 13,568 Kian since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 29,024 babies since 1880, Kiyan is the fifth most given (7.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 200 of their 1,576 babies (13%), the third 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 Kiyan
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 Kiyan and names like it
- Compare Kiyan and KianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKiyan peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiyan since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kiyan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kiyan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.