Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Kiron is a romanization of কিরণ. কিরণ comes from Sanskrit.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kiron through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 282
- 282 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −69%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 381 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kiron’s family of names
Kiron has a related form in Kiran. In Bengali usage, Kiron is a Roman-alphabet rendering of কিরণ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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