Kynan
Kynan was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 370 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kynan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kynan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,226, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 2012, the peak
Kynan peaked in 2012, when 19 boys were given it, #4,955 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #13,226 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,553 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,425 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,509 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,494 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,955 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,293 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,583 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,843 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,041 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 16 | #5,572 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,205 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,030 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,792 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,939 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,917 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,878 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,729 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,858 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,071 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,902 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,054 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,198 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,286 | 5.7 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,213 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,816 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,973 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,327 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,198 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,788 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,900 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,235 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,929 | 3.4 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,310 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,895 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,220 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,143 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,235 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,836 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,260 | 6.2 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,285 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,269 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kynan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kynan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kynan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kynan, and how old are they?
An estimated 355 Americans named Kynan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 387 people named Kynan (12 women and girls, 375 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 355 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,519 babies since 1880, Kynan is the eighth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,425 babies recorded by SSA was a Kynan (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kynan
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 Kynan and names like it
- Compare Kynan and KianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKynan peaked in 2012.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Kynan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kynan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.