Ciaran
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #1,609 for boys in 2025, 105 births
Given to boys 98.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 105 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,198since 1959
Ciaran over time
Rank among boys' names. Ciaran 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #1,609 | 105 |
| 2024 | — | #1,767 | 93 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,909 | 82 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,892 | 83 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,060 | 71 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,046 | 69 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,265 | 61 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,230 | 61 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,217 | 60 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,086 | 67 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,955 | 74 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,794 | 83 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,782 | 81 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,172 | 61 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,824 | 78 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,144 | 62 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,925 | 74 | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #1,838 | 79 |
| 2007 | — | #1,995 | 70 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,082 | 63 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,061 | 60 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #1,880 | 65 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #1,906 | 61 |
| 2002 | — | #2,224 | 47 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,117 | 49 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,330 | 41 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,098 | 45 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,987 | 48 | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #2,126 | 41 |
| 1996 | — | #2,254 | 36 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,685 | 27 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,123 | 38 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,697 | 26 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,604 | 17 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,462 | 17 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,823 | 8 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,446 | 16 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,162 | 11 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,731 | 12 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,882 | 11 | |
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| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
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| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
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| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | #4,907 | 5 |
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ciaran! It came in at #3,619, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1978, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ciaran is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#599 · 1 in 3,861
- New Jersey#754 · 1 in 4,991
- Pennsylvania#843 · 1 in 5,806
- Georgia#1,403 · 1 in 10,223
- California#1,526 · 1 in 16,387
Best ever in a state: #452 in Massachusetts, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #599 | 7 | 1 in 3,861 |
| New Jersey | #754 | 8 | 1 in 4,991 |
| Pennsylvania | #843 | 9 | 1 in 5,806 |
| Georgia | #1,403 | 5 | 1 in 10,223 |
| California | #1,526 | 11 | 1 in 16,387 |
| New York | #1,636 | 6 | 1 in 14,413 |
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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 Ciaran
- 158 spots since 2024 (#1,767 → #1,609)
- 437 spots since 2020 (#2,046 → #1,609)
- 346 spots since 2015 (#1,955 → #1,609)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2025 at #1,609 (105 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,267 boys born in 2025 were named Ciaran (0.01%)
- 31.3% of all boys named Ciaran (688) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 6 | #3,619 (1959) | #3,619 |
| 1960s | 10 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,270 |
| 1970s | 17 | #4,842 (1979) | #5,198 |
| 1980s | 62 | #3,446 (1989) | #4,430 |
| 1990s | 303 | #1,987 (1998) | #2,886 |
| 2000s | 609 | #1,838 (2008) | #2,036 |
| 2010s | 688 | #1,782 (2013) | #2,047 |
| 2020s | 503 | #1,609 (2025) | #1,881 |
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.
Ciaran in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 18,526 of them was named Ciaran, which outranked 87.6% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,752Shayan94
- #1,752Woods94
- #1,752Xaiden94
- #1,767Ciaran93
- #1,767Donnie93
- #1,767Iam93
- #1,767Leeland93
- #1,776Antony92
- #1,776Avir92
- #1,776Azari92
Tied with 8 names at #1,767; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.