Meaning not yet researched.
Chiara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 228 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,054 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,054 in 2002; #1,066 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chiara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,066 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #1,054.
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Chiara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 228 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,054 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 228 (2025).
In 2025, 228 US girls were named Chiara, making it the 1,066th most common girls’ name of the year, up 48 places from #1,114 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 219 girls named Chiara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,054, reached in 2002. The most girls given the name in a single year was 228, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,853 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chiara in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 5 babies. In all, 5,927 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,721 babies named Chiara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,787 US girls were named Chiara; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 228. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,049 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Chiara ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #355 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Clara (301,540 babies since 1880), Claire (214,123 babies since 1880), Kiara (57,289 babies since 1880) and Ciara (34,883 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Khiara, Chera and Khira are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Khiara (536), Chera (468), Khira (304), Shiara (97), Chyra (48), Khyara (22), Chira (17), Cherra (17), Chiarra (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Chiara in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 8 | #355 | — |
| New York | 34 | #498 | #1,082 |
| Florida | 35 | #520 | #1,279 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #532 | — |
| Colorado | 9 | #598 | — |
| New Jersey | 11 | #679 | #971 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #693 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #779 | — |
| California | 27 | #1,004 | #1,122 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,083 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,143 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,550 | #2,966 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 228 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 2024 | 219 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 2023 | 202 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 2022 | 182 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 2021 | 206 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 2020 | 166 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 2019 | 152 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 2018 | 161 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 2017 | 137 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 2016 | 134 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 2015 | 111 | #1,853 | — | — |
| 2014 | 131 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 2013 | 143 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 2012 | 111 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 2011 | 134 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 2010 | 145 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 2009 | 183 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 2008 | 155 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 2007 | 177 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 2006 | 173 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 2005 | 183 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 2004 | 202 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 2003 | 186 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 2002 | 203 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 2001 | 139 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 2000 | 120 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 1996 | 98 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 1995 | 105 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,392 | — | — |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,344 | — | — |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,201 | — | — |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,233 | — | — |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,671 | — | — |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,501 | — | — |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,621 | — | — |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,809 | — | — |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,579 | — | — |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,192 | — | — |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,023 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,006 | — | — |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,195 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,533 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,804 | — | — |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,814 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,535 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,343 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,936 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,896 | — | — |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,720 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,591 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,584 | — | — |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,342 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,542 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).