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Kyan

Kyan reached its high-water mark in 2004 at number 587, and has been recorded 3,955 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,020th. About 3,900 Kyans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kyan boys named Kyan

By the numbers

Total US births
3,955
Estimated living today
3,900
Median age today
15
Peak year
2004
Best rank
587th
Rank in 2025
2,020th
First recorded
1974
Girls / boys
169 / 3,786

How old the living Kyans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,955 babies given the name since 1974, about 3,900 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Kyan is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kyan is most concentrated in Florida (2.6×), Washington (2.1×), Georgia (1.7×), Arizona (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2004

The most popular boys’ names the year Kyan peaked:

All the names of 2004

Kyan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Kyan 1,453 401st
Belgium boys Kyan 971 147th
France boys Kyan 820 553rd
Switzerland boys Kyan 238 334th
Scotland boys Kyan 55 377th
England and Wales girls Kyan 4 4,157th
Northern Ireland boys Kyan 3 398th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Kyan: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Kyan 131 0.011% 295th
French boys Switzerland Kyan 96 0.022% 219th
Italian boys Switzerland Kyan 11 0.017% 95th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Kyan is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.03% of children were given it – 26 of them.

Kyan: rank by region

In 2025, Kyan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Kyan 498 11

In 2020, Kyan was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Region Spelling Place Children
Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste Kyan 10 1

In 2019, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Kyan appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (279th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Kyan by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin boys 2017–2023 2 546th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Kyan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
the Netherlands boys Kyan 2,194 2,443
the Netherlands girls Kyan 6 7
Finland boys Kyan 5 6

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Kyan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.