Kiany
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kiany has been given to 76 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Kiany, 2024
1 in 478,000
Kiany 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kiany?
Kiany had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kiany sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kiany. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kianys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kiany was born before 2009 — so the typical Kiany is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 44.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 76
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (34).
Is Kiany 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (10)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.2% average annual change
Spellings of Kiany
Kiany is not the most common spelling — Diane is, with 39.0% against Kiany'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.
Kiany around the world
Where Kiany 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.
- France2023–2023#6,277in 2023
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Kiany by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kiany
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kiany
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.