Gian
#955 for boys in 2025, 244 births
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 328 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,033since 1953
Gian over time
Rank among boys' names. Gian has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #955 | 244 |
| 2024 | #896 | 264 |
| 2023 | #777 | 328 |
| 2022 | #923 | 250 |
| 2021 | #957 | 234 |
| 2020 | #1,201 | 158 |
| 2019 | #1,380 | 129 |
| 2018 | #1,228 | 151 |
| 2017 | #1,384 | 127 |
| 2016 | #1,288 | 141 |
| 2015 | #1,216 | 151 |
| 2014 | #1,389 | 122 |
| 2013 | #1,510 | 107 |
| 2012 | #1,448 | 114 |
| 2011 | #1,377 | 121 |
| 2010 | #1,383 | 121 |
| 2009 | #1,309 | 133 |
| 2008 | #1,180 | 151 |
| 2007 | #1,306 | 132 |
| 2006 | #1,154 | 146 |
| 2005 | #1,261 | 124 |
| 2004 | #1,114 | 142 |
| 2003 | #1,220 | 120 |
| 2002 | #1,130 | 126 |
| 2001 | #1,564 | 77 |
| 2000 | #1,573 | 75 |
| 1999 | #1,879 | 52 |
| 1998 | #1,849 | 53 |
| 1997 | #1,790 | 53 |
| 1996 | #1,908 | 47 |
| 1995 | #1,782 | 49 |
| 1994 | #1,608 | 57 |
| 1993 | #1,638 | 54 |
| 1992 | #2,174 | 35 |
| 1991 | #1,615 | 52 |
| 1990 | #1,840 | 42 |
| 1989 | #1,831 | 41 |
| 1988 | #1,790 | 38 |
| 1987 | #1,760 | 37 |
| 1986 | #1,837 | 33 |
| 1985 | #2,710 | 18 |
| 1984 | #2,232 | 23 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #2,059 | 26 |
| 1981 | #2,086 | 25 |
| 1980 | #2,058 | 26 |
| 1979 | #2,310 | 21 |
| 1978 | #2,279 | 20 |
| 1977 | #2,665 | 16 |
| 1976 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1975 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1974 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #2,716 | 13 |
| 1972 | #2,418 | 15 |
| 1971 | #2,558 | 14 |
| 1970 | #2,739 | 12 |
| 1969 | #2,682 | 11 |
| 1968 | #2,576 | 11 |
| 1967 | #2,030 | 15 |
| 1966 | #2,216 | 13 |
| 1965 | #2,084 | 15 |
| 1964 | #3,282 | 7 |
| 1963 | #2,858 | 9 |
| 1962 | #2,848 | 9 |
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| 1960 | #3,337 | 7 |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 6 |
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| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Gian! It came in at #3,798, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1958, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Gian is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Rhode Island#198 · 1 in 772
- New Jersey#610 · 1 in 4,194
- Florida#714 · 1 in 5,053
- California#1,050 · 1 in 11,565
- Pennsylvania#1,072 · 1 in 10,130
Best ever in a state: #111 in Rhode Island, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | #198 | 5 | 1 in 772 |
| New Jersey | #610 | 10 | 1 in 4,194 |
| Florida | #714 | 19 | 1 in 5,053 |
| California | #1,050 | 20 | 1 in 11,565 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,072 | 6 | 1 in 10,130 |
| New York | #1,291 | 8 | 1 in 12,842 |
| Texas | #1,352 | 12 | 1 in 15,546 |
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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 Gian
- 59 spots since 2024 (#896 → #955)
- 246 spots since 2020 (#1,201 → #955)
- 261 spots since 2015 (#1,216 → #955)
- Biggest jump: 244 spots in 2021 (#1,201 → #957)
- Biggest drop: 119 spots in 2024 (#777 → #896)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 2023 at #777 (328 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2021–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,215 boys born in 2023 were named Gian (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,000 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 29.4% of all boys named Gian (1,478) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 16 | #3,619 (1959) | #3,803 |
| 1960s | 97 | #2,030 (1967) | #2,657 |
| 1970s | 157 | #2,245 (1976) | #2,569 |
| 1980s | 281 | #1,760 (1987) | #2,143 |
| 1990s | 494 | #1,608 (1994) | #1,808 |
| 2000s | 1,226 | #1,114 (2004) | #1,281 |
| 2010s | 1,284 | #1,216 (2015) | #1,360 |
| 2020s | 1,478 | #777 (2023) | #952 |
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.
Gian in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 15,745 of them was named Gian, which outranked 90.1% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,385Murphy123
- #1,385Vernon123
- #1,385Zephaniah123
- #1,389Gian122
- #1,389Abdirahman122
- #1,389Aven122
- #1,389Kyran122
- #1,396Beck121
- #1,396Brently121
- #1,396Carver121
Tied with 6 names at #1,389; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.