Kiran
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · #1,267 for boys in 2025, 155 births
Given to boys 62.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 155 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,165since 1970
Kiran 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | #1,267 | 155 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #1,344 | 142 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #1,591 | 109 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | #1,611 | 108 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #1,503 | 118 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #1,609 | 100 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #1,698 | 93 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | #1,648 | 98 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 | #1,612 | 99 |
| 2016 | #4,345 | 33 | #1,563 | 105 |
| 2015 | #4,403 | 32 | #1,388 | 124 |
| 2014 | #3,925 | 38 | #1,608 | 97 |
| 2013 | #4,002 | 37 | #1,444 | 114 |
| 2012 | #3,711 | 42 | #1,398 | 119 |
| 2011 | #3,550 | 44 | #1,544 | 102 |
| 2010 | #3,889 | 39 | #1,558 | 102 |
| 2009 | #2,892 | 60 | #1,443 | 116 |
| 2008 | #2,419 | 79 | #1,414 | 119 |
| 2007 | #2,457 | 76 | #1,713 | 88 |
| 2006 | #2,512 | 73 | #1,605 | 90 |
| 2005 | #2,457 | 71 | #1,584 | 87 |
| 2004 | #2,503 | 67 | #1,530 | 87 |
| 2003 | #2,522 | 64 | #1,561 | 81 |
| 2002 | #2,158 | 77 | #1,660 | 71 |
| 2001 | #2,600 | 58 | #2,007 | 53 |
| 2000 | #2,593 | 57 | #1,968 | 52 |
| 1999 | #2,567 | 55 | #1,710 | 61 |
| 1998 | #2,307 | 61 | #2,068 | 45 |
| 1997 | #3,161 | 37 | #2,396 | 34 |
| 1996 | #2,423 | 53 | #2,218 | 37 |
| 1995 | #2,788 | 43 | #3,100 | 22 |
| 1994 | #2,797 | 43 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1992 | #4,088 | 25 | #2,747 | 25 |
| 1991 | #2,989 | 38 | #3,105 | 20 |
| 1990 | #3,813 | 27 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #3,045 | 35 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #3,165 | 31 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | #3,983 | 21 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #2,845 | 33 | #3,882 | 11 |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 | #2,956 | 15 |
| 1983 | #3,431 | 23 | #2,787 | 16 |
| 1982 | #3,344 | 25 | #2,709 | 17 |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #3,609 | 22 | #2,729 | 17 |
| 1979 | #3,777 | 20 | #3,018 | 14 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #4,069 | 17 | #2,910 | 14 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 | #2,709 | 15 |
| 1975 | #3,052 | 23 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | — | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | #3,521 | 8 |
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| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kiran! It came in at #3,521, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1973, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kiran is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Virginia#834 · 1 in 6,926
- Ohio#908 · 1 in 8,647
- New York#929 · 1 in 8,172
- Michigan#932 · 1 in 8,032
- California#1,132 · 1 in 13,751
Best ever in a state: #132 in District of Columbia, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #834 | 6 | 1 in 6,926 |
| Ohio | #908 | 7 | 1 in 8,647 |
| New York | #929 | 13 | 1 in 8,172 |
| Michigan | #932 | 6 | 1 in 8,032 |
| California | #1,132 | 17 | 1 in 13,751 |
| Texas | #1,802 | 7 | 1 in 25,517 |
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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 Kiran
- 77 spots since 2024 (#1,344 → #1,267)
- 342 spots since 2020 (#1,609 → #1,267)
- 121 spots since 2015 (#1,388 → #1,267)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2025 at #1,267 (155 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,020 boys born in 2025 were named Kiran (0.01%)
- 33.3% of all boys named Kiran (1,053) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2002, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 87 | #2,709 (1976) | #3,515 |
| 1980s | 139 | #2,709 (1982) | #3,430 |
| 1990s | 310 | #1,710 (1999) | #2,732 |
| 2000s | 844 | #1,414 (2008) | #1,649 |
| 2010s | 1,053 | #1,388 (2015) | #1,546 |
| 2020s | 732 | #1,267 (2025) | #1,488 |
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.
Kiran in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 45,579 of them was named Kiran, which outranked 80.4% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,816Yaquelin40
- #3,816Zowie40
- #3,816Zyana40
- #3,889Kiran39
- #3,889Akilah39
- #3,889Alaijah39
- #3,889Alajah39
- #3,961Acadia38
- #3,961Adaleigh38
- #3,961Aili38
Tied with 71 names at #3,889; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 18,811 of them was named Kiran, which outranked 89.1% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,552Murphy103
- #1,552Nikita103
- #1,552Wiley103
- #1,558Kiran102
- #1,558Abdul102
- #1,558Graeme102
- #1,558Isac102
- #1,565Andrei101
- #1,565Ford101
- #1,565Hernan101
Tied with 6 names at #1,558; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.