Kiani
#4,609 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kiani has been given to 1,326 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #4,609 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 50 recorded.
Babies named Kiani, 2025
1 in 111,000
Kiani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kiani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 111,000
- 30 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 53,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,609
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 76,598 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kiani 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kiani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kianis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kiani was born before 2004 — so the typical Kiani is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 30.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,296
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (390).
Is Kiani 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
- −178
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +634
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,247
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.67×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 60.0%
- Peak was 1996 (50)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.4% average annual change
Spellings of Kiani
Kiani is not the most common spelling — Diane is, with 36.2% against Kiani's 0.09%.
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 Kiani is used
Across 1910–2025, Kiani was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 2,941 girls, against 1 in 111,254 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Kiani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kiani around the world
Where Kiani 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 & Wales1999–2018#5,666in 2018
- South Australia1995–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kiani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kiani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kiani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.