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How popular is “Kayan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kayan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kayan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kayan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kayan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kayan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kayan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kayan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
2002 7 0.000001873 7 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 -100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 -100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 -100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2010 20 0.000005412 20 -100%
2011 11 0.000003007 11 -100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2013 12 0.000003292 12 -100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 -100%
2015 24 0.000006485 5 19 -58%
2016 25 0.000006814 25 -100%
2017 37 0.000010346 13 24 -30%
2018 42 0.000011946 17 25 -19%
2019 42 0.0000121 19 23 -10%
2020 44 0.000013171 19 25 -14%
2021 50 0.000014758 24 26 -4%
2022 76 0.000022464 47 29 24%
2023 71 0.000021442 41 30 15%
2024 76 0.000022833 36 40 -5%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Kayan:

  1. Kayah
  2. Kayahna
  3. Kayal
  4. Kayala
  5. Kayali
  6. Kayan (this page)
  7. Kayana
  8. Kayani
  9. Kayann
  10. Kayanna
  11. Kayannah