Cian
Last seen for girls in 2007 at #17,636 · #1,310 for boys in 2025, 148 births
Given to boys 99.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2007 · 181 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,724since 1976
Cian over time
Rank among boys' names. Cian has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,310 | 148 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,530 | 115 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,440 | 126 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,374 | 136 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,267 | 150 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,460 | 118 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,394 | 127 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,261 | 145 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,156 | 163 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,208 | 156 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,190 | 155 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,205 | 152 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,321 | 130 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,244 | 142 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,440 | 114 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,323 | 129 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,266 | 139 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,169 | 153 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #1,038 | 181 |
| 2006 | — | #1,194 | 140 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,282 | 120 | |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #1,280 | 117 |
| 2003 | — | #1,335 | 103 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,543 | 80 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,481 | 82 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,666 | 69 | |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #1,879 | 52 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #1,957 | 49 |
| 1997 | — | #2,502 | 32 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,218 | 37 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,762 | 26 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,326 | 20 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,360 | 10 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,338 | 19 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,271 | 12 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,786 | 9 | |
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| 1986 | — | #4,457 | 9 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,333 | 9 | |
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| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
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| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cian! It came in at #5,587, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1978, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Cian is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Connecticut#495 · 1 in 2,795
- Oregon#545 · 1 in 2,650
- Iowa#573 · 1 in 2,811
- New York#697 · 1 in 4,457
- Illinois#877 · 1 in 5,990
Best ever in a state: #302 in Massachusetts, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Connecticut | #495 | 5 | 1 in 2,795 |
| Oregon | #545 | 6 | 1 in 2,650 |
| Iowa | #573 | 5 | 1 in 2,811 |
| New York | #697 | 20 | 1 in 4,457 |
| Illinois | #877 | 9 | 1 in 5,990 |
| Pennsylvania | #995 | 7 | 1 in 7,922 |
| Tennessee | #1,017 | 5 | 1 in 7,167 |
| New Jersey | #1,036 | 5 | 1 in 8,111 |
| California | #1,514 | 11 | 1 in 17,216 |
| Florida | #1,581 | 6 | 1 in 15,460 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cian
- 220 spots since 2024 (#1,530 → #1,310)
- 150 spots since 2020 (#1,460 → #1,310)
- 120 spots since 2015 (#1,190 → #1,310)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2007 at #1,038 (181 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,356 boys born in 2017 were named Cian (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,541 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,038 in 2007, was only 1 in 11,466 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.9% of all boys named Cian (1,413) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 15 | #3,810 (1979) | #4,699 |
| 1980s | 59 | #4,271 (1989) | #4,786 |
| 1990s | 260 | #1,879 (1999) | #3,657 |
| 2000s | 1,184 | #1,038 (2007) | #1,325 |
| 2010s | 1,413 | #1,156 (2017) | #1,274 |
| 2020s | 793 | #1,267 (2021) | #1,397 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cian in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 11,663 of them was named Cian, which outranked 91.0% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,262Noble151
- #1,262Oakland151
- #1,262Oren151
- #1,267Cian150
- #1,267Axle150
- #1,267Clifford150
- #1,267Monte150
- #1,273Efrain149
- #1,273Garrison149
- #1,273Harper149
Tied with 5 names at #1,267; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.