Kieren

How popular is Kieren in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1997, with 219 boys.

Half of all the boys named Kieren in the UK since 1996 were born between 1997 and 2003. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.

How popular is Kieren in the US?

Rank in 2025

5,606th among boys

Babies in 2025

16 about 1 in 110,000 boys

Five-year trend

Too rare to call too few babies to tell

Same name in a class

under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 16 boys in the US were named Kieren, making it the 5,606th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 28 boys. It first appears in the records in 1990.

It has been given to more boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had more boys named Kieren than any year since 2018.

Half of all the boys named Kieren in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,709 boys in the US were given Kieren or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #231, up from #5,606 for this spelling alone.

• Kieran 817
• Kyren 504
• Ciaran 105
• Kyron 83
• Kyran 68
• Khyren 60
• Kirin 26
• Kieren 16

In 2014, 19% of the babies named Kieren in the US were girls.