Kyan
Kyan was given to 74 boys in 2025, #2,029 among boys’ names; 3,955 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,910 Americans named Kyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kyan?
#2,029 among boys’ names, 2025
Kyan fell from #1,207 in 2015 to #2,029 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 79.8 to 43.3 per million.
404 babies in 2004, the peak
Kyan peaked in 2004, when 404 babies were given it (379 boys, #588 among boys’ names). The 79 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,029 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 81 | #1,945 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 82 | #1,920 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,338 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 87 | #1,807 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 121 | #1,433 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,428 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 111 | #1,535 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 133 | #1,344 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 157 | #1,206 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 153 | #1,207 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 137 | #1,298 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 151 | #1,191 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 169 | #1,104 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 199 | #985 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 189 | #1,029 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 168 | #1,101 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 209 | #961 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 181 | #1,045 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 216 | #901 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 293 | #701 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 379 | #588 | 0.19 |
| 2003 | 86 | #1,504 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,915 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,368 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 20 | #4,002 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,535 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,601 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,674 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,052 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,976 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,721 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,595 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,432 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,685 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,643 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,577 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,326 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,112 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,830 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,058 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,833 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,389 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,955 Americans recorded as Kyan, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 74 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyan, and how old are they?
3,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,955 Americans ever recorded as Kyan. The median Kyan alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 3,430 people named Kyan (206 women and girls, 3,224 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,429 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 94 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,510 |
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 Kyan born?
The states with the most babies named Kyan are Georgia, California and Florida, with 81% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 10 | #892 | 0.8× |
| California | 6 | #2,351 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,752 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,389 | 0.8× |
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 Kyan 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 29,024 babies since 1880, Kyan is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 1,576 babies (5.0%), the fifth 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 Kyan
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 Kyan and names like it
- Compare Kyan and KianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKyan peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kyan since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Kyan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kyan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.