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I'm semi-familiar with Kiernan Shipka (she was on Mad Men before Chilling Adventures), and even if it's not the case, her name screams "mother's maiden name became child's first name regardless of gender."

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People can really grow into their names, and in watching her she does rather look like a Kiernan, if that makes sense; but it's not a name I can imagine on any other girl / woman.

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I do kind of like Kiernan for a boy; but I prefer both Kieran and Tiernan.

I like it for either gender.

Hi Perrine !!!

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I saw that TV series too.

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I dislike the name Kiernan. It is surnamey and its Irish form is too long.

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I much prefer Tadhg (or Tighe) and Meredith / Meredydd (masculine) and Rían / Ryan.

It's ok for a boy

I had went to school with a Kiera growing up who would say that Kiernan was the male equivelant she would have been named had she been a boy. She said it means "black", "black haired", "dark haired" etc. though I have heard varying definitions on etemological meaning. I tend to take name meanings with a grain of salt personally as they can frequently be wrong, plus very few people outside of name nerd circles even know definitions of names to begin with so I consider it a "minor detail".

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I like both Kiera and Kiernan, though prefer the former on a girl & the latter on a boy.

It sounds too masculine to me as it’s so similar to Kieran.

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I found this definition:

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Irish: reduced form of McKiernan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thighearnáin ‘son of Tighearnan’ (see Tiernan).