Cian vs Ciana

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Cian Ciana

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 50 years in which either name was published, Cian for 26 years and Ciana for 24 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

• 1976 Cian ahead
• 1977–1978 Ciana ahead
• 1979 Cian ahead
• 1980–2000 Ciana ahead
• 2001 Cian ahead
• 2002 Ciana ahead
• 2003–2025 Cian ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Cianas alive today are over 18; half the Cians are over 13. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Cian Massachusetts (4.4×), Colorado (2.5×), New York (2.3×)
• Ciana Florida (4.0×), California (3.4×), Arizona (3.1×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

• Cian vs Ciara
• Cian vs Ciarra
• Cian vs Cianna
• Cian vs Ciaran
• Cian vs Ciani
• Ciana vs Ciara
• Ciana vs Ciarra
• Ciana vs Cianna