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Kieran: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 817 in 2025. Its best rank was #389 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99% of babies named Kieran in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#389 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Kieran: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 817 boys in 2025. Peak: #389 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 817 (2025).
In 2025, 817 US boys were named Kieran, making it the 389th most common boys’ name of the year, up 51 places from #440 in 2024. That is 101 more than the 716 boys named Kieran in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #389, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 817. For comparison, it was #512 in 2015 and #1,784 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kieran in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 8 babies. In all, 19,218 US babies have been given the name, 8.4% of them girls and 92% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,623 babies named Kieran.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,213 US boys were named Kieran; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 817. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,091 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kieran ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #211 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ciaran (2,233 babies since 1880), Kiran (5,041 babies since 1880), Keren (5,014 babies since 1880) and Kyran (3,282 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kerin, Keron and Kirin are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kerin (1,595), Keron (1,046), Kirin (983), Kieron (730), Kieren (636), Keryn (320), Kiron (282), Kieryn (256), Kiren (236), Kiryn (84), Keeran (70), Kierin (54), and more.
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 Kieran 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 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 7 | #211 | — |
| Connecticut | 16 | #216 | #373 |
| Pennsylvania | 58 | #219 | #399 |
| Idaho | 12 | #226 | — |
| Massachusetts | 27 | #227 | #357 |
| Wisconsin | 26 | #232 | #467 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #252 | #242 |
| Minnesota | 24 | #257 | #352 |
| Colorado | 25 | #265 | #451 |
| New Jersey | 33 | #277 | #298 |
| Washington | 26 | #295 | #438 |
| Virginia | 28 | #300 | #330 |
| New York | 60 | #310 | #397 |
| Kansas | 12 | #312 | #445 |
| Ohio | 38 | #314 | #610 |
| Oregon | 13 | #318 | #476 |
| California | 93 | #372 | #483 |
| Maryland | 14 | #378 | #356 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #421 | — |
| Illinois | 23 | #464 | #551 |
| Tennessee | 17 | #466 | #711 |
| Nevada | 6 | #485 | — |
| North Carolina | 21 | #492 | #465 |
| Florida | 37 | #496 | #614 |
| Michigan | 17 | #503 | #788 |
| Missouri | 12 | #503 | #545 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #503 | #372 |
| Arizona | 14 | #510 | #543 |
| Iowa | 6 | #545 | — |
| Louisiana | 8 | #561 | #671 |
| Indiana | 12 | #567 | #854 |
| Utah | 7 | #594 | #651 |
| Georgia | 17 | #609 | #643 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #665 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #722 | — |
| Texas | 37 | #740 | #691 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #811 | #716 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,184 | 817 | #389 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,259 | 716 | #440 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,862 | 636 | #477 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,531 | 621 | #490 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,672 | 598 | #493 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,758 | 558 | #514 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,232 | 581 | #493 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,696 | 579 | #497 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,266 | 567 | #512 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,718 | 540 | #539 |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,794 | 560 | #512 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,409 | 483 | #576 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,206 | 471 | #558 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,177 | 470 | #554 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,246 | 562 | #474 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,144 | 469 | #540 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,814 | 528 | #510 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,735 | 502 | #533 |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,447 | 450 | #571 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,119 | 445 | #563 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,920 | 408 | #571 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,875 | 425 | #544 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,938 | 429 | #538 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,689 | 399 | #556 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,724 | 410 | #534 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,727 | 416 | #528 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,453 | 319 | #597 |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,354 | 292 | #625 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,270 | 259 | #644 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,875 | 278 | #624 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,456 | 265 | #638 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,570 | 233 | #680 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,465 | 192 | #755 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,599 | 125 | #964 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,101 | 105 | #1,059 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,100 | 109 | #1,018 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,180 | 84 | #1,157 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,472 | 64 | #1,288 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,542 | 60 | #1,263 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,960 | 62 | #1,222 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,195 | 65 | #1,162 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,364 | 74 | #1,038 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,291 | 49 | #1,341 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,097 | 59 | #1,214 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,750 | 50 | #1,319 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,072 | 43 | #1,457 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,475 | 50 | #1,310 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,526 | 47 | #1,336 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,993 | 43 | #1,400 |
| 1976 | — | — | 35 | #1,562 |
| 1975 | — | — | 41 | #1,370 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,124 | 36 | #1,458 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,035 | 39 | #1,338 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,878 | 27 | #1,705 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,296 | 53 | #1,131 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,494 | 44 | #1,256 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,020 | 31 | #1,454 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,564 | 35 | #1,300 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,197 | 42 | #1,157 |
| 1966 | — | — | 39 | #1,209 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,343 | 46 | #1,101 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,734 | 39 | #1,251 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,592 | 33 | #1,367 |
| 1962 | — | — | 33 | #1,380 |
| 1961 | — | — | 39 | #1,271 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,022 | 37 | #1,308 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,897 | 32 | #1,397 |
| 1958 | — | — | 34 | #1,330 |
| 1957 | — | — | 28 | #1,502 |
| 1956 | — | — | 22 | #1,701 |
| 1955 | — | — | 26 | #1,523 |
| 1954 | — | — | 12 | #2,376 |
| 1953 | — | — | 20 | #1,745 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,987 | 18 | #1,831 |
| 1951 | — | — | 12 | #2,310 |
| 1950 | — | — | 18 | #1,784 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,638 | 9 | #2,711 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,386 |
| 1947 | — | — | 12 | #2,313 |
| 1946 | — | — | 15 | #1,921 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,558 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,391 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,080 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,775 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #3,010 |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #2,989 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,764 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,826 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,926 |
| 1934 | — | — | 9 | #2,663 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,051 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,778 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,122 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,455 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,567 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,692 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,562 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,358 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,253 |
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).