Meaning not yet researched.
Kiran: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 155 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,272 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 90% of babies named Kiran in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,272 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Kiran: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 155 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,272 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 155 (2025).
In 2025, 155 US boys were named Kiran, making it the 1,272nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 77 places from #1,349 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 142 boys named Kiran in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,272, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 155. For comparison, it was #1,392 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Kiran, making it the 6,697th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,230 places from #9,927 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 10 girls named Kiran in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,167, reached in 2002. The most girls given the name in a single year was 79, in 2008. For comparison, it was #4,451 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kiran in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 7 babies. In all, 5,041 US babies have been given the name, 37% of them girls and 63% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,526 babies named Kiran.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,127 US boys were named Kiran; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 155. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,020 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kiran ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #490 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kieran (19,218 babies since 1880), Keren (5,014 babies since 1880), Kyron (4,561 babies since 1880) and Kyren (4,085 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keiron, Kyrian and Keiren 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Hindustani. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Keiron (444), Kyrian (428), Keiren (98), Kyryn (82), Keiryn (62), Kirynn (5), Kyiren (5), Keirin (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 Kiran 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 10 | #490 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #710 | — |
| California | 30 | #823 | #980 |
| New York | 16 | #870 | #816 |
| Ohio | 9 | #903 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #984 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,177 | #991 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,382 | #797 |
| Texas | 10 | #1,709 | #1,716 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,983 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,697 | 155 | #1,272 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,927 | 142 | #1,349 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,321 | 109 | #1,601 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,076 | 108 | #1,617 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,742 | 118 | #1,509 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,694 | 100 | #1,616 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,891 | 93 | #1,706 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,084 | 98 | #1,653 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,452 | 99 | #1,614 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,395 | 105 | #1,569 |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,451 | 124 | #1,392 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,965 | 97 | #1,614 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,047 | 114 | #1,452 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,758 | 119 | #1,403 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,579 | 102 | #1,555 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,921 | 102 | #1,561 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,913 | 116 | #1,449 |
| 2008 | 79 | #2,428 | 119 | #1,419 |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,471 | 88 | #1,715 |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,526 | 90 | #1,612 |
| 2005 | 71 | #2,468 | 87 | #1,591 |
| 2004 | 67 | #2,516 | 87 | #1,538 |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,540 | 81 | #1,574 |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,167 | 71 | #1,672 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,617 | 53 | #2,019 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,618 | 52 | #1,984 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,590 | 61 | #1,716 |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,325 | 45 | #2,082 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,196 | 34 | #2,426 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,438 | 37 | #2,237 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,820 | 22 | #3,151 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,823 | 25 | #2,904 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,828 | 30 | #2,485 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,158 | 25 | #2,782 |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,015 | 20 | #3,177 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,850 | 11 | #4,858 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,076 | 12 | #4,417 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,190 | 16 | #3,288 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,057 | 7 | #5,810 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,879 | 11 | #4,008 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,211 | 13 | #3,522 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,240 | 15 | #3,037 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,488 | 16 | #2,852 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,375 | 17 | #2,773 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,677 | 15 | #2,969 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,673 | 17 | #2,795 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,837 | 14 | #3,091 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,086 | 15 | #2,866 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,137 | 14 | #2,985 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,038 | 15 | #2,764 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,101 | 10 | #3,556 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,158 | 6 | #4,964 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,044 | 5 | #5,507 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,253 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,928 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,597 | 8 | #3,687 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,374 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,523 | — | — |
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).