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Kiyanne vs Kiyoshi

American parents have registered 1,241 Kiyoshis since 1880, against 66 Kiyannes. Kiyoshi is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kiyanne Kiyoshi

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 75 years in which either name was published, Kiyoshi for 72 years and Kiyanne for 3 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kiyanne Kiyoshi
Total US births 661,241
Most in one year 2166
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 70400
Median age today 619
Peak year 20181923
Best rank 5,785th girls835th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked8,243rd
First recorded 20181910
Girls / boys 66 / 015 / 1,226

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 Kiyoshis alive today are over 19; half the Kiyannes are over 6. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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