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Jian

#4,610 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Build, establish

Jian has been given to 642 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #4,610 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 29 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.

Babies named Jian, 2025

1 in 151,000

Jian over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Jian over time

In 2025, Jian went to 24% girls and 76% boys.

19862025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Jian: meaning, origin, and history

Build, establish

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jian means

Jian means “build, establish”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jian is used in Franco-Provençal.

Jian comes through Latin Iōhannēs.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include John.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 600 boys were recorded with the name Jian between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,776 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,344 in 2020 to #4,610 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,159 in 2015 to #4,610 in 2025.

In the United States, 42 girls were recorded with the name Jian between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2016; its best national rank was #12,480 in 2025.

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 Jian?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,610
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jian 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jian was born before 2011 — so the typical Jian is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
600
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (199).

Is Jian 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
+1,703
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+734
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+549
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.9%
Peak was 2022 (29)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,776
2003

Spellings of Jian

Jian is not the most common spelling — John is, with 46.1% against Jian's <0.01%.

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 Jian is used

Across 1910–2025, Jian was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 376,517 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

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. Jian has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jian around the world

Where Jian 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
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2025
    #4,427
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Jian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,610
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 734
Best rank ever
#3,776
2003
Peak year
2022
29 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
600
Count in 2025
22

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,480
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#12,480
2025
Peak year
2016
7 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
42
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Jian

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

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Sibling names for Jian

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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