Kyran
Kyran was given to 68 boys in 2025, #2,133 among boys’ names; 3,282 Americans have been recorded with it since 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,220 Americans named Kyran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kyran mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kyran is “a male given name, variant of Kiran and Kieran.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kyran?
#2,133 among boys’ names, 2025
Kyran fell from #1,526 in 2015 to #2,133 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 56.3 to 39.8 per million.
195 babies in 2012, the peak
Kyran peaked in 2012, when 195 babies were given it (189 boys, #1,031 among boys’ names). The 68 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,133 | 39.8 |
| 2024 | 79 | #1,977 | 45.9 |
| 2023 | 109 | #1,602 | 63.7 |
| 2022 | 90 | #1,811 | 51.5 |
| 2021 | 97 | #1,695 | 55.4 |
| 2020 | 91 | #1,710 | 52.7 |
| 2019 | 104 | #1,600 | 58.0 |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,644 | 54.5 |
| 2017 | 127 | #1,391 | 68.6 |
| 2016 | 129 | #1,376 | 68.0 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 108 | #1,526 | 56.3 |
| 2014 | 122 | #1,392 | 63.5 |
| 2013 | 154 | #1,173 | 81.4 |
| 2012 | 189 | #1,031 | 99.6 |
| 2011 | 177 | #1,064 | 93.2 |
| 2010 | 152 | #1,187 | 79.2 |
| 2009 | 114 | #1,464 | 57.5 |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,513 | 52.9 |
| 2007 | 86 | #1,735 | 41.4 |
| 2006 | 91 | #1,600 | 44.3 |
| 2005 | 92 | #1,539 | 46.1 |
| 2004 | 70 | #1,791 | 35.3 |
| 2003 | 70 | #1,742 | 35.4 |
| 2002 | 58 | #1,927 | 29.9 |
| 2001 | 70 | #1,668 | 36.0 |
| 2000 | 60 | #1,805 | 30.5 |
| 1999 | 59 | #1,739 | 30.7 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,002 | 25.1 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,076 | 22.8 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,032 | 22.7 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,807 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,063 | 11.9 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,575 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,881 | 12.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,399 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,555 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,679 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,892 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,816 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,123 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,199 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,011 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,833 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,059 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,930 | 3.4 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,309 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,519 | 3.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,270 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,846 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,864 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,347 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,302 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,251 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,287 | 2.3 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,499 | 3.4 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,473 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,282 Americans recorded as Kyran, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 68 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 Kyran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyran, and how old are they?
3,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,282 Americans ever recorded as Kyran. The median Kyran alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,455 people named Kyran (193 women and girls, 2,262 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,728 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 27 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 215 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,370 |
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 Kyran born?
The states with the most babies named Kyran are North Carolina, Texas and California, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,094 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,453 | 0.7× |
| California | 5 | #2,656 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,462 | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 5 | #945 | 0.7× |
Where Kyran is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kyran is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1933 it was given 2.2 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 Kyran 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 39,851 babies since 1880, Kyran is the fifth most given (8.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 68 of their 1,788 babies (3.8%), the sixth 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 Kyran
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 Kyran and names like it
- Compare Kyran and KieranBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKyran peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kyran since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Kyran.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kyran alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.