Kayan
#3,479 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kayan has been given to 660 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #3,479 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 40 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 63% boys, 37% girls all-time.
Babies named Kayan, 2025
1 in 100,000
Kayan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kayan over time
In 2025, Kayan went to 35% girls and 65% boys.
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.
How common is Kayan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 100,000
- 33 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 51,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,479
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 69,634 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kayan sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kayan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kayans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kayan was born before 2018 — so the typical Kayan is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 44.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 414
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 44.9% of all recorded uses (186).
Is Kayan 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
- −405
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +602
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,489
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.74×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 82.5%
- Peak was 2024 (40)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.2% average annual change
Spellings of Kayan
Kayan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 42.3% against Kayan'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 Kayan is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Kayan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,203,159 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Michigan1 in —
- 4New Jersey1 in —
- 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. Kayan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Kayan is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Kayan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 397,672 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Michigan1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Kayan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kayan around the world
Where Kayan 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 & Wales1996–2025#914in 2025
- France2007–2025#1,935in 2025
- Canada2007–2024#1,331in 2024
- South Australia2006–2006#657in 2006
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.
Kayan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kayan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kayan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.