Kiran

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kiran: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kiran: Recorded since 1967, with a gap of 27 years, its highest recorded position is #245, and it stood at #1,595 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
60times a registrar ranked it
58years from first to last
#245highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Kiran's record

Absent from every published list for 27 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#285
1997	#281
1998	#295
1999	#311
2000	#361
2001	#361
2002	#445
2003	#412
2004	#463
2005	#490
2006	#571
2007	#675
2008	#650
2009	#821
2010	#1013
2011	#1196
2012	#1428
2013	#1291
2014	#1204
2015	#1649
2016	#1525
2017	#2090
2018	#3518
2019	#2869
2020	#4535
2021	#2942
2022	#4645
2023	#3218
2024	#4192

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1967–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1967
First recorded at #245 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1967 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1967–1968
Highest recorded position: #245 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1967 (recorded 1967–1968).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Kiran appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 1,097 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1967.

Kiran across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kiran's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#454 (1996)	#321 (2002)	#1595 (2024)	29 of 29	1,097 (1996–2024)	82 (2002)
England and Wales · Girls	#285 (1996)	#281 (1997)	#4192 (2024)	29 of 29	1,420 (1996–2024)	130 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#245 (1967)	#245 (1967)	#267 (1968)	2 of 2	7 (1967–1968)	4 (1967)

Kiran by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kiran in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	200	4 of 10	50
2000sbusiest	579	10 of 10	58
2010s	254	10 of 10	25
2020s	64	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 58 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kiran appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1967 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #245 in Republic of Ireland in 1967.

Kiran's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1595	16	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1461	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2018	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1723	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1316	19	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1097	25	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1546	16	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1525	21	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1271	21	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1380	18	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1204	28	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1370	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1291	26	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#837	36	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1428	22	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#901	33	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1196	27	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#907	32	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1013	33	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#811	36	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#821	42	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#682	44	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#650	57	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#684	43	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#675	51	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#560	55	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#571	60	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#608	47	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#490	72	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#544	49	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#463	75	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#532	49	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#412	87	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#394	67	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#445	71	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#321	82	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#361	92	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#365	66	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#361	91	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#330	77	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#311	109	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#352	66	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#295	124	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#409	54	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#281	129	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#493	38	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#285	130	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#454	42	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	male	#267	3	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#245	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1967 and 2024, ranked in 31 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #245, first reached in 1967.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 130 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 27 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 29 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Kion · #1097, 25y
Kira · #140, 39y
Kirat · #1491, 17y
Kirby · #345, 22y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Earl · #245, 34y
Edyta · #245, 31y
Lester · #245, 28y
Caoilinn · #246, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Earl · #245, 34y
Edyta · #245, 31y
Lester · #245, 28y
Orna · #245, 56y

Kiran was ranked #245 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1967. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kiran and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kiran without appearing here.

Kiran moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2730 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1461 and #4991.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3518 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2869 and #5591.
Barry Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2730 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2018 and #4001.
Grant Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2730 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2018 and #4001.

Moved ahead of Kiran

Janice Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2942 and #3961 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #4645 and #1948.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #4535 and #1939.
Mona Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #4535 and #2042.
Susan Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #3151 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #4535 and #2042.

Moved the opposite way to Kiran

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiran went from #285 to #4192 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kiran went from #454 to #1595 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kiran went from #454 to #1595 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kiran went from #454 to #1595 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.

Moved the same way as Kiran

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kiran went from #454 to #1595 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiran went from #285 to #4192 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kiran went from #454 to #1595 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiran went from #285 to #4192 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1967 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #245 in Republic of Ireland in 1967. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kiran

Kiran at a glance

What stands out in Kiran's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kiran across 3 official records

Kiran by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kiran appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Kiran at a glance

What stands out in Kiran's record

Kiran across 3 official records

Kiran by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kiran appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Kiran

Kiran and the names beside it

Kiran moved ahead of

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