Meaning not yet researched.
Kyan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 74 in 2025. Its best rank was #588 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #588 in 2004; #2,029 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Kyan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,029 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #588.
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Kyan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 74 boys in 2025. Peak: #588 in 2004 · most boys in one year: 379 (2004).
In 2025, 74 US boys were named Kyan, making it the 2,029th most common boys’ name of the year, down 84 places from #1,945 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 81 boys named Kyan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #588, reached in 2004. That year also had the most boys given the name: 379. For comparison, it was #1,207 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kyan in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 3,955 US babies have been given the name, 4.3% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,703 babies named Kyan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,030 US boys were named Kyan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 157. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,082 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kyan ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #892 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ken (33,043 babies since 1880), Kian (13,568 babies since 1880), Keon (9,275 babies since 1880) and Keyon (6,020 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kyanne and Qynn 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kyanne (344), Qynn (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 Kyan 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 10 | #892 | #1,168 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,389 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,752 | #1,464 |
| California | 6 | #2,351 | #1,144 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,220 | 74 | #2,029 |
| 2024 | — | — | 81 | #1,945 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,374 | 82 | #1,920 |
| 2022 | — | — | 61 | #2,339 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,451 | 87 | #1,807 |
| 2020 | — | — | 121 | #1,433 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,770 | 123 | #1,428 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,207 | 111 | #1,535 |
| 2017 | — | — | 133 | #1,344 |
| 2016 | — | — | 157 | #1,206 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,542 | 153 | #1,207 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,565 | 137 | #1,298 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,663 | 151 | #1,191 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,867 | 169 | #1,104 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,818 | 199 | #985 |
| 2010 | — | — | 189 | #1,029 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,535 | 168 | #1,101 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,246 | 209 | #961 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,808 | 181 | #1,045 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,064 | 216 | #901 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,567 | 293 | #701 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,147 | 379 | #588 |
| 2003 | — | — | 86 | #1,507 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,907 | 32 | #2,919 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,811 | 26 | #3,373 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,399 | 20 | #4,008 |
| 1999 | — | — | 22 | #3,540 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,608 |
| 1997 | — | — | 19 | #3,679 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #5,059 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #4,982 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,727 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,601 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,439 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,693 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,651 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,584 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,332 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,118 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,284 | — | — |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,834 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,060 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,835 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,391 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,445 | — | — |
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).