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Ciana vs Ciani

American parents have registered 2,604 Cianas since 1880, against 726 Cianis. Ciana is still ahead, with 44 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ciana against Ciani, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ciana Ciani

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

Ciana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Ciana had 64 and Ciani had 43.

Side by side

  Ciana Ciani
Total US births 2,604726
Most in one year 14745
Babies in 2025 4423
Estimated living today 2,600720
Median age today 1819
Peak year 20082006
Best rank 1,562nd girls3,505th girls
Rank in 2025 3,459th5,410th
First recorded 19771979
Girls / boys 2,604 / 0726 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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