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Kiyana vs Kiyoko

American parents have registered 1,592 Kiyanas since 1880, against 923 Kiyokos. Kiyana is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kiyana against Kiyoko, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kiyana Kiyoko

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 79 years in which either name was published, Kiyana for 51 years and Kiyoko for 28 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kiyana Kiyoko
Total US births 1,592923
Most in one year 6158
Babies in 2025 257
Estimated living today 1,600230
Median age today 2516
Peak year 20001921
Best rank 2,480th girls969th girls
Rank in 2025 5,099th11,932nd
First recorded 19741912
Girls / boys 1,592 / 0923 / 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 Kiyanas alive today are over 25; half the Kiyokos are over 16. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Kiyana and Kiyoko.