Cianan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cianan has been given to 30 babies in the U.S. since 1997. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Cianan, 2009
1 in 546,000
Cianan over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cianan?
Cianan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2009
- 1 in 546,000
- 7 of 3,820,315 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 283,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2009
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 378,293 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cianan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 378,293 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cianan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cianans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cianan was born before 2002 — so the typical Cianan is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 63.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 30
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 63.3% of all recorded uses (19).
Is Cianan 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (7)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Cianan
Cianan is not the most common spelling — Canaan is, with 18.7% against Cianan's 0.10%.
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.
Cianan around the world
Where Cianan 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 & Wales1997–2023#4,992in 2023
- Northern Ireland1997–2025#395in 2025
- Ireland1992–2023#770in 2023
- South Australia1990–1990#484in 1990
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cianan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cianan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cianan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.