Ciaran is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Ciaran is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Ciaran. In the SmartGenius ranking, Ciaran is #1,829 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ciaran.
In fact, the name Ciaran did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Ciaran seemed to be more popular than ever in 2008. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,632, 85 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Ciaran, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ciaran was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Ciaran a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #1,701 - with a total of 83 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of having a man or boy named Ciaran in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Ciaran is registered in 13 states, among which are California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois or Massachusetts. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Ciaran live in New York, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 51,685 men and boys in New York for their name before you meet one who answers with Ciaran.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Ciaran is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Ciaran and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ciaran, you can simply say:
Cat
Igloo
Apple
Rocket
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ciaran
Ciaran
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
I
A
R
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
I
A
R
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ciaran sounds like this:
