Kirān
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kirān is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In India it is the 81st most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Sanskrit किरण (kiraṇa, “ray of light”).
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 14K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #774 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 380 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 609 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kiran in IN India, US United States, PK Pakistan and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Sanskrit किरण (kiraṇa, “ray of light”).
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kirān counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #321 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Kiran | 76 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 609 | — | Kiran | 81 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Kiran | 78 |
| US United States | — | 10,388 | 1 in 32K | 5.9K | Kiran | 380 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Kiran | 186 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Kiran | 50 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Kiran | 63 |
| GY Guyana | — | 69 | 1 in 11K | 69 | — | — |
| IN India | #81 | — | — | 758 | Kiran | 300 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kirān mean, and where does it come from?
- From Sanskrit किरण (kiraṇa, “ray of light”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 2 other sources.
- Is Kirān a male or female name?
- Kirān is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kirān have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 102 thousand people named Kirān in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kiran.
- How common is the name Kirān?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,388 people named Kirān in 2020, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Kirān compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Kirān is the 321st most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kirān?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kir%C4%81nThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kirān” — the 321st most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.