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Kaan

#3,343 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Kağan

Kaan has been given to 894 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #3,343 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Kaan, 2025

1 in 94,700

Kaan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaan: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kağan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaan means

Kaan is a variant of Kağan.

Origin, language, and formation

Kaan is used in Turkish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kağan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 894 boys were recorded with the name Kaan between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2018; its best national rank was #2,983 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,349 in 2020 to #3,343 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,114 in 2015 to #3,343 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 Kaan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,343
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaan 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaans were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
894
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (351).

Is Kaan 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
+394
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,006
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−229
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
89.7%
Peak was 2018 (39)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,983
2005

Spellings of Kaan

Kaan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 23.9% against Kaan's 0.02%.

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 Kaan is used

Across 1910–2025, Kaan was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 218,650 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Kaan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kaan around the world

Where Kaan 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
    #1,226
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2010
    #638
    in 2010
  • France
    1980–2025
    #961
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Kaan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,343
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,006
Best rank ever
#2,983
2005
Peak year
2018
39 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
894
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Kaan

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

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Sibling names for Kaan

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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