Cyan
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births · #4,139 for boys in 2025, 25 births
Given to girls 73.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 98 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,118since 1986
Cyan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #5,722 | 21 | #4,139 | 25 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 | #3,001 | 41 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 | #2,848 | 44 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #5,338 | 17 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #5,770 | 15 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 | #4,179 | 24 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #5,114 | 27 | #5,035 | 18 |
| 2011 | #5,063 | 27 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #3,961 | 38 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #4,013 | 38 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #3,376 | 49 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #2,978 | 57 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #4,487 | 30 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #3,265 | 46 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #3,412 | 42 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #2,527 | 62 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #2,126 | 77 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #2,277 | 68 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,914 | 82 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #1,646 | 98 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 | — | |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | — | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | — | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cyan! It came in at #10,912, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986–1992, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Cyan is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Washington#857 · 1 in 5,846
- Michigan#886 · 1 in 7,360
- New York#983 · 1 in 7,748
- Illinois#1,167 · 1 in 10,059
- California#2,117 · 1 in 24,557
Best ever in a state: #676 in Colorado, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #857 | 5 | 1 in 5,846 |
| Michigan | #886 | 7 | 1 in 7,360 |
| New York | #983 | 13 | 1 in 7,748 |
| Illinois | #1,167 | 7 | 1 in 10,059 |
| California | #2,117 | 9 | 1 in 24,557 |
| Texas | #2,149 | 6 | 1 in 23,907 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Cyan
- 445 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #5,722)
- 603 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #5,722)
- 111 spots since 2015 (#5,833 → #5,722)
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 1998 at #1,646 (98 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,030 girls born in 1998 were named Cyan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 76,537 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.5% of all girls named Cyan (509) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2020, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #10,912 (1986) | #10,912 |
| 1990s | 251 | #1,646 (1998) | #5,128 |
| 2000s | 509 | #2,126 (2001) | #3,240 |
| 2010s | 251 | #3,961 (2010) | #5,563 |
| 2020s | 102 | #5,722 (2025) | #6,813 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cyan in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 18,030 of them was named Cyan, which outranked 90.1% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,636Laney99
- #1,636Meranda99
- #1,636Michela99
- #1,646Cyan98
- #1,646Annalee98
- #1,646Clarisa98
- #1,646Jackelyn98
- #1,657Alexxis97
- #1,657Candy97
- #1,657Hailie97
Tied with 10 names at #1,646; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.