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Cian

#1,310 in 2025Boys' name

Long, distant, lasting

Cian has been given to 3,751 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #1,310 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 181 recorded.

Babies named Cian, 2025

1 in 22,400

Cian over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cian: meaning, origin, and history

Long, distant, lasting

Old Irish

What Cian means

Cian means “long, distant, lasting”, associated with cían.

Origin, language, and formation

Cian is used in Irish. Its origins include Old Irish.

Cian comes through Old Irish Cían.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Irish, Cian is pronounced /ˈciənˠ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,724 boys were recorded with the name Cian between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 181 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,039 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,461 in 2020 to #1,310 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,192 in 2015 to #1,310 in 2025.

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Cian between 1998 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2004; its best national rank was #10,870 in 2004.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cian?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,400
148 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,310
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,527 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cian sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,527 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cian was born before 2012 — so the typical Cian is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,724
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (1,413).

Is Cian rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+220
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+151
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−118
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.8%
Peak was 2007 (181)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,039
2007

Spellings of Cian

Cian is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 21.2% against Cian's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cian is used

Across 2016–2025, Cian was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 14,781 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

122 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 4,545
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 5,882
  3. 3New York1 in 6,667
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 7,692
  5. 5Illinois1 in 11,111
  6. 6Florida1 in 12,500
  7. 7Washington1 in 12,500
  8. 8California1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Cian around the world

Where Cian ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #338
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1994–2025
    #126
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–2025
    #72
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1966–2025
    #33
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2023
    #4,994
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #738
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–2012
    #514
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Cian

People whose public names include Cian, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Cian in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cian. Linked forms have their own page here.

Kian

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cian by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,310
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 151
Best rank ever
#1,039
2007
Peak year
2007
181 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,724
Count in 2025
148

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,870
2004
Peak year
2004
9 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cian

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LianGianRianEianCiaranKianArianZianAvianKylianJavianFavianKilianJianVivianAdianZavianDemianTavianDavianXavianElianFlorianTian

Names with a curve like Cian

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cian, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DaylenMikahPiersonDevZephaniahDhruvOskarKellerRamsesArmaanCanonGianluca

Sibling names for Cian

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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