Meaning not yet researched.
Kayan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,075 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,075 in 2024; #3,480 in 2025. About 65% of babies named Kayan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,480 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #3,075.
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Kayan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,075 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 40 (2024).
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Kayan, making it the 3,480th most common boys’ name of the year, down 405 places from #3,075 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 40 boys named Kayan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,075, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 40. For comparison, it was #4,970 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Kayan, making it the 6,441st most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,367 places from #4,074 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 36 girls named Kayan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,392, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 47. For comparison, it was #17,806 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kayan in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 7 babies. In all, 660 US babies have been given the name, 37% of them girls and 63% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 368 babies named Kayan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 280 US boys were named Kayan; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kain (3,750 babies since 1880) and Kayne (2,405 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kayhan, Kahaan and Kayaan 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: Kayhan (161), Kahaan (131), Kayaan (84).
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 Kayan 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 | 18 | #6,441 | 33 | #3,480 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,074 | 40 | #3,075 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,743 | 30 | #3,764 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,392 | 29 | #3,825 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,321 | 26 | #4,071 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,200 | 25 | #4,085 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,294 | 23 | #4,412 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,947 | 25 | #4,154 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,543 | 24 | #4,275 |
| 2016 | — | — | 25 | #4,151 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,806 | 19 | #4,970 |
| 2014 | — | — | 15 | #5,871 |
| 2013 | — | — | 12 | #6,823 |
| 2012 | — | — | 12 | #6,831 |
| 2011 | — | — | 11 | #7,254 |
| 2010 | — | — | 20 | #4,766 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #10,451 |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #10,488 |
| 2007 | — | — | 8 | #9,345 |
| 2006 | — | — | 9 | #8,404 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,728 | — | — |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,463 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #8,941 |
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).