Kiannah
#7,690 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kiannah has been given to 375 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #7,690 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 30 recorded.
Babies named Kiannah, 2025
1 in 237,000
Kiannah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kiannah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,690
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kiannah 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kiannah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kiannahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kiannah was born before 2011 — so the typical Kiannah is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 35.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 87.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 375
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (132).
Is Kiannah 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
- −599
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,236
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +6,087
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 46.7%
- Peak was 2023 (30)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.7% average annual change
Spellings of Kiannah
Kiannah is not the most common spelling — Hannah is, with 63.4% against Kiannah's 0.05%.
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 Kiannah is used
Across 1910–2025, Kiannah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 943,123 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Kiannah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kiannah around the world
Where Kiannah 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 & Wales2006–2020#4,535in 2020
- Scotland2013–2013#816in 2013
- South Australia2004–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kiannah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kiannah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kiannah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.