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Kiyan

#1,076 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kiyan has been given to 2,188 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #1,076 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 200 recorded.

Babies named Kiyan, 2025

1 in 16,600

Kiyan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kiyan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kiyan means

Kiyan is a given name.

The naming story behind Kiyan

Wikidata records Kiyan as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q20000457, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,160 boys were recorded with the name Kiyan between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 200 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,076 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,587 in 2020 to #1,076 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,376 in 2015 to #1,076 in 2025.

In the United States, 28 girls were recorded with the name Kiyan between 2011 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2011; its best national rank was #9,452 in 2011.

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.

How common is Kiyan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,600
200 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,540
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,076
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,491 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kiyan 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,491 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kiyan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kiyans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kiyan was born before 2017 — so the typical Kiyan is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,160
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.7% of all recorded uses (1,182).

Is Kiyan 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
+316
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+511
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+300
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.59×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (200)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,076
2025

Spellings of Kiyan

Kiyan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 45.9% against Kiyan's 0.10%.

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 Kiyan is used

Across 2016–2025, Kiyan was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 14,212 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 5,556
  2. 2New York1 in 6,667
  3. 3Georgia1 in 8,333
  4. 4Virginia1 in 8,333
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 11,111
  6. 6Maryland1 in 12,500
  7. 7Illinois1 in 14,286
  8. 8California1 in 16,667

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.

Kiyan around the world

Where Kiyan 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
    1998–2025
    #452
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #660
    in 2023
  • France
    1997–2025
    #1,517
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #641
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kiyan

People whose public names include Kiyan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kiyan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,076
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 511
Best rank ever
#1,076
2025
Peak year
2025
200 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,160
Count in 2025
200

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,452
2011
Peak year
2011
12 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kiyan

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

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Names with a curve like Kiyan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kiyan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Kiyan

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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