girls:
35 births since 2009
#5681 (1st percentile)
boys:
564 births since 1986
#4022 (12th percentile)
overall:
599 births since 1986
#7140 (8th percentile)
The name Jian is the #7,140 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 599 recorded births since 1986. This represents the 7.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,022 (12.2% percentile) for all time with 564 births since 1986. For girls, it ranks #5,681 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 2009.
Jian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1986 (1986 for boys and 2009 for girls). Birth data for Jian is available in 35 out of the 38 years between 1986 and 2023 (35 years for boys and 6 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 Jian has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jian reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #900) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jian ranks #897 for boys (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 67.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jian reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #955) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jian".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.0% confident that Jian is pronounced as JEE-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEE-ahn, at 35.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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