Meaning not yet researched.
Kiaan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 255 in 2025. Its best rank was #752 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #752 in 2021; #925 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kiaan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#925 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #752.
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Kiaan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 255 boys in 2025. Peak: #752 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 337 (2021).
In 2025, 255 US boys were named Kiaan, making it the 925th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2 places from #927 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 250 boys named Kiaan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #752, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 337. For comparison, it was #1,761 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kiaan in 16 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2010 with 15 babies. In all, 2,842 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,765 babies named Kiaan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,569 US boys were named Kiaan; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 337. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,698 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kiaan ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #403 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kian (13,568 babies since 1880), Kyan (3,955 babies since 1880), Kiyan (2,188 babies since 1880) and Kion (1,311 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Kiaan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 20 | #403 | #923 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #423 | #671 |
| Washington | 14 | #517 | — |
| California | 48 | #610 | #1,036 |
| Virginia | 10 | #707 | #948 |
| Colorado | 7 | #723 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #727 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #760 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #821 | — |
| New York | 17 | #821 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #867 | — |
| Texas | 26 | #946 | #1,853 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,056 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,076 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,090 | #1,141 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,091 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,165 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).