Meaning not yet researched.
Cyan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,852 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,852 in 2023; #4,155 in 2025. About 54% of babies named Cyan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,155 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #2,852.
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Cyan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,852 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 44 (2023).
In 2025, 25 US boys were named Cyan, making it the 4,155th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,151 places from #3,004 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 41 boys named Cyan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,852, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 44. For comparison, it was #4,199 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Cyan, making it the 5,761st most common girls’ name of the year, up 458 places from #6,219 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 19 girls named Cyan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,648, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 98. For comparison, it was #5,874 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cyan in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 5 babies. In all, 1,520 US babies have been given the name, 74% of them girls and 26% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 592 babies named Cyan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 225 US boys were named Cyan; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sean (426,606 babies since 1880), Zyon (5,045 babies since 1880), Cian (3,751 babies since 1880) and Zyan (2,074 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cyanne and Cynne are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cyanne (279), Cynne (16).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cyan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,761 | 25 | #4,155 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,219 | 41 | #3,004 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,224 | 44 | #2,852 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,142 | 24 | #4,330 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,596 | 17 | #5,381 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,391 | 11 | #7,127 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,938 | 18 | #5,199 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,867 | 15 | #5,828 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,390 | 10 | #7,692 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,173 | 20 | #4,816 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,874 | 24 | #4,199 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,291 | 9 | #8,271 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,300 | 14 | #5,984 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,138 | 18 | #5,077 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,095 | 8 | #8,922 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,975 | 9 | #8,282 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,035 | 8 | #9,154 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,953 | 11 | #7,302 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,392 | 14 | #5,969 |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,991 | 9 | #8,120 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,512 | 11 | #6,725 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,276 | 9 | #7,661 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,426 | 6 | #9,816 |
| 2002 | 62 | #2,529 | 8 | #7,786 |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,134 | 7 | #8,483 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,286 | — | — |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,918 | 6 | #8,911 |
| 1998 | 98 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,989 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,705 | — | — |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #7,988 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,210 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,765 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,319 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).