Meaning not yet researched.
Ciera: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #375 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #375 in 1993; #11,153 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ciera in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,153 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #375.
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Ciera: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #375 in 1993 · most girls in one year: 682 (1993).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Ciera, making it the 11,153rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,458 places from #9,695 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 10 girls named Ciera in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #375, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 682. For comparison, it was #4,322 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ciera in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 11,372 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,605 babies named Ciera.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 180 US girls were named Ciera; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sierra (100,866 babies since 1880), Ciara (34,883 babies since 1880), Cierra (27,659 babies since 1880) and Ciarra (3,352 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zera, Cerah and Zyera are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zera (703), Cerah (38), Zyera (23), Cerai (18), Cyerah (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 Ciera in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,153 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,695 | — | — |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,592 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,187 | — | — |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,341 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,993 | — | — |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,061 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,827 | — | — |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,704 | — | — |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,867 | — | — |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,322 | — | — |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,287 | — | — |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,588 | — | — |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 2010 | 114 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 2009 | 110 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 2008 | 142 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 2007 | 160 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 2006 | 236 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 2005 | 322 | #805 | — | — |
| 2004 | 298 | #830 | — | — |
| 2003 | 280 | #863 | — | — |
| 2002 | 348 | #713 | — | — |
| 2001 | 440 | #580 | — | — |
| 2000 | 474 | #552 | — | — |
| 1999 | 483 | #524 | — | — |
| 1998 | 497 | #508 | — | — |
| 1997 | 534 | #469 | — | — |
| 1996 | 537 | #467 | — | — |
| 1995 | 575 | #448 | — | — |
| 1994 | 600 | #417 | — | — |
| 1993 | 682 | #375 | — | — |
| 1992 | 613 | #411 | — | — |
| 1991 | 524 | #468 | — | — |
| 1990 | 560 | #443 | — | — |
| 1989 | 528 | #458 | — | — |
| 1988 | 488 | #462 | — | — |
| 1987 | 520 | #430 | — | — |
| 1986 | 447 | #479 | 5 | #6,908 |
| 1985 | 249 | #702 | — | — |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,353 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,906 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,696 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,493 | — | — |
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).