Baby name
RISING
🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 Kiran
/KIH · ran/
Meaning
“Ray of light or beam of sunlight”
Sanskrit name meaning 'ray of light' or 'beam of sunlight'; widely used across India for both boys and girls, increasingly popular in Western diaspora.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Luminous meaning, gender-neutral, and beautifully portable across cultures.
The cultural moment.
Common throughout India; rising in the United Kingdom and United States among South Asian diaspora since the 1990s.