Kyani
Kyani was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,699 among girls’ names; 301 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kyani?
#7,699 among girls’ names, 2025
Kyani rose from #11,429 in 2015 to #7,699 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 8.7 per million.
22 babies in 2023, the peak
Kyani peaked in 2023, when 22 girls were given it, #5,653 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,699 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,096 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,653 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,589 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,070 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,696 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,385 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,216 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,079 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,366 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,429 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,573 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,659 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,098 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,092 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,990 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,994 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,811 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,629 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,406 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,964 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,183 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,877 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,805 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,392 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,063 | 3.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,703 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,588 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,063 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,422 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kyani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kyani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyani, and how old are they?
An estimated 299 Americans named Kyani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 203 people named Kyani (186 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 200 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Kyani?
Kyani is a less common spelling of Kiani: SSA has recorded 301 Kyani and 1,326 Kiani since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 35,934 babies since 1880, Kyani is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 504 babies (2.8%), the seventh 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 Kyani
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 Kyani and names like it
- Compare Kyani and KianiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKyani peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kyani since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Kyani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kyani alive today were born 2013-2025.
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