Meaning not yet researched.
Kior: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 67 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,158 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 63% of babies named Kior in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,158 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Kior: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 67 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,158 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 67 (2025).
In 2025, 67 US boys were named Kior, making it the 2,158th most common boys’ name of the year, up 90 places from #2,248 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 64 boys named Kior in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,158, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 67. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 40 US girls were named Kior, making it the 3,744th most common girls’ name of the year, down 384 places from #3,360 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 47 girls named Kior in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,806, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 61. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kior in 9 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2017 with 20 babies. In all, 548 US babies have been given the name, 65% of them girls and 35% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 483 babies named Kior.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 190 US boys were named Kior; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,494 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kior ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,218 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kier, Keior and Kiere are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kier (500), Keior (57), Kiere (46), Kerr (23), Ker (15), Keyior (11), Kiore (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 Kior 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,218 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,005 | — |
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).