girls:
30 births since 1971
#5686 (0th percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1959
#2809 (39th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1959
#5750 (26th percentile)
The name Ciaran is the #5,750 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,027 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 25.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,809 (38.7% percentile) for all time with 1,997 births since 1959. For girls, it ranks #5,686 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 30 births since 1971.
Ciaran first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (1959 for boys and 1971 for girls). Birth data for Ciaran is available in 46 out of the 65 years between 1959 and 2023 (46 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ciaran has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ciaran reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 8.6% percentile (ranked #826) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 44 births per million (ranked 8.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ciaran is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #836 (8.2% percentile) with 44 births per million.
For girls, Ciaran reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #767) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ciaran".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Ciaran. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.4% confident that Ciaran is pronounced as KEE-rahn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-ruhn, at 21.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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