Meaning not yet researched.
Kiernan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,694 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,694 in 2000; #3,409 in 2025. About 79% of babies named Kiernan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,409 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #1,694.
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Kiernan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,694 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 77 (2008).
In 2025, 34 US boys were named Kiernan, making it the 3,409th most common boys’ name of the year, down 272 places from #3,137 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 39 boys named Kiernan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,694, reached in 2000. The most boys given the name in a single year was 77, in 2008. For comparison, it was #2,943 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Kiernan, making it the 10,519th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,895 places from #14,414 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 6 girls named Kiernan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,852, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 34. For comparison, it was #9,827 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kiernan in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 2,448 US babies have been given the name, 28% of them girls and 72% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 879 babies named Kiernan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 365 US boys were named Kiernan; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Keirnan and Kiernen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Keirnan (20), Kiernen (5).
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 Kiernan 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 | 9 | #10,519 | 34 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,414 | 39 | #3,137 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,741 | 29 | #3,848 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,857 | 31 | #3,661 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,853 | 41 | #3,003 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,759 | 33 | #3,381 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,719 | 29 | #3,765 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,393 | 43 | #2,823 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,254 | 54 | #2,404 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,647 | 32 | #3,484 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,827 | 40 | #2,943 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,294 | 42 | #2,834 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,582 | 34 | #3,239 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,089 | 41 | #2,891 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,427 | 60 | #2,188 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,073 | 74 | #1,920 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,003 | 66 | #2,085 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,372 | 77 | #1,888 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,454 | 66 | #2,081 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,687 | 49 | #2,498 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,001 | 67 | #1,899 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,371 | 56 | #2,120 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,028 | 69 | #1,754 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,852 | 67 | #1,732 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,383 | 60 | #1,854 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,894 | 68 | #1,694 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,388 | 48 | #2,009 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,251 | 39 | #2,296 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,757 | 40 | #2,190 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,673 | 50 | #1,832 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,119 | 34 | #2,325 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,498 | 38 | #2,151 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,809 | 32 | #2,376 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,964 | 21 | #3,166 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,798 | 20 | #3,176 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,703 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,920 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,816 | 12 | #4,061 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,368 | 14 | #3,438 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,678 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,538 | 10 | #4,217 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,784 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,096 | 5 | #6,811 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,177 | 11 | #3,824 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,229 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,664 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,077 | 5 | #6,329 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,064 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,879 | — | — |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,307 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,106 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,201 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,284 |
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).