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Kiyan vs Kiyanne

American parents have registered 2,188 Kiyans since 1880, against 66 Kiyannes. Kiyan is still ahead, with 200 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kiyan against Kiyanne, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kiyan Kiyanne

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

Kiyan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1995 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Kiyan had 111 and Kiyanne had 21.

Side by side

  Kiyan Kiyanne
Total US births 2,18866
Most in one year 20021
Babies in 2025 200under 5
Estimated living today 2,20070
Median age today 86
Peak year 20252018
Best rank 1,075th boys5,785th girls
Rank in 2025 1,075thunranked
First recorded 19952018
Girls / boys 28 / 2,16066 / 0

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 Kiyans alive today are over 8; half the Kiyannes are over 6. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kiyan and Kiyanne.