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Kyran vs Kyria

American parents have registered 3,282 Kyrans since 1880, against 797 Kyrias. Kyran is still ahead, with 68 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyran Kyria

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 61 years in which either name was published, Kyran for 46 years and Kyria for 15 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Kyran Kyria
Total US births 3,282797
Most in one year 19537
Babies in 2025 686
Estimated living today 3,200790
Median age today 1421
Peak year 20122008
Best rank 1,030th boys4,179th girls
Rank in 2025 2,125th13,208th
First recorded 19331972
Girls / boys 133 / 3,149797 / 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 Kyrias alive today are over 21; half the Kyrans are over 14. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Kyran Kyria
England and Wales 2,54336
France 305215
Belgium 876

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.

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