girls:
1.6k births since 1949
#4172 (27th percentile)
boys:
16.1k births since 1918
#915 (80th percentile)
overall:
17.7k births since 1918
#1938 (75th percentile)
The name Kieran is the #1,938 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,654 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 75.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #915 (80.1% percentile) for all time with 16,071 births since 1918. For girls, it ranks #4,172 (27.0% percentile) for all time with 1,583 births since 1949.
Kieran first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for boys and 1949 for girls). Birth data for Kieran is available in 97 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (97 years for boys and 62 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 Kieran has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kieran reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 52.8% percentile (ranked #437) with 330 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 346 births per million (ranked 52.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kieran is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #431 (52.7% percentile) with 346 births per million.
For girls, Kieran reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 7.3% percentile (ranked #915) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 36 births per million (ranked 7.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kieran ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 33.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kieran".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kieran. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.3% confident that Kieran is pronounced as KEE-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KIH-ruhn, at 46.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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