Killian
Killian is ranked 369th among boys in 2024 (884 births). Its best rank was 248th, in 2017.
- Rank in 2024
- #369down 2 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8840.05% of boys
- Peak year
- 20171,505 births
- Best rank
- #248in 2017
- Since 1915
- 16,046people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,446 boys have been named Killian in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 1,505 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 51%. It has spent 22 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 600 girls have also been given it, 3.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2017, its biggest year
Killian was the 248th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Killian
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Pharaohpeak 2019
- Axlpeak 2019
- Foxpeak 2016
- Princetonpeak 2017
- Arrowpeak 2018
- Daxonpeak 2017
- Daxtonpeak 2019
- Lincolnpeak 2017
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.