Meaning not yet researched.
Keira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 469 in 2025. Its best rank was #110 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #110 in 2006; #622 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#622 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #110.
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Keira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 469 girls in 2025. Peak: #110 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 3,022 (2006).
In 2025, 469 US girls were named Keira, making it the 622nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 17 places from #605 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 496 girls named Keira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #110, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,022. For comparison, it was #245 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keira in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 33,843 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 14,527 babies named Keira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,174 US girls were named Keira; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,038. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,427 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keira ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #193 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kira (40,856 babies since 1880), Ciara (34,883 babies since 1880), Kiera (21,870 babies since 1880) and Kaira (3,335 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keyaira, Keairra and Keierra 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Keyaira (905), Keairra (413), Keierra (61), Keairah (56), Keirrah (28), Kerrah (21), Keerra (11), Keeaira (10), Keerah (6), Keorra (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 Keira 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 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 29 | #193 | #129 |
| Oregon | 11 | #338 | #268 |
| California | 95 | #343 | #207 |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #407 | #172 |
| New Jersey | 19 | #412 | #181 |
| Washington | 17 | #422 | #196 |
| Colorado | 13 | #442 | #207 |
| Maryland | 10 | #528 | #317 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #573 | #125 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #582 | #204 |
| Illinois | 16 | #607 | #350 |
| Florida | 27 | #638 | #308 |
| New York | 25 | #668 | #203 |
| Arizona | 9 | #718 | #253 |
| Utah | 5 | #764 | #242 |
| Ohio | 12 | #770 | #233 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #801 | #192 |
| Virginia | 9 | #804 | #246 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #849 | #411 |
| Texas | 34 | #866 | #385 |
| Michigan | 8 | #909 | #278 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #947 | #365 |
| Indiana | 6 | #983 | #310 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,463 | #381 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 469 | #622 | — | — |
| 2024 | 496 | #605 | — | — |
| 2023 | 524 | #568 | — | — |
| 2022 | 577 | #536 | — | — |
| 2021 | 662 | #472 | — | — |
| 2020 | 663 | #467 | — | — |
| 2019 | 888 | #357 | — | — |
| 2018 | 867 | #365 | — | — |
| 2017 | 990 | #332 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,038 | #313 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,312 | #245 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,469 | #228 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,572 | #203 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,652 | #190 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,789 | #176 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,863 | #165 | — | — |
| 2009 | 2,260 | #141 | 7 | #10,465 |
| 2008 | 2,736 | #123 | — | — |
| 2007 | 2,677 | #128 | — | — |
| 2006 | 3,022 | #110 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,468 | #232 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,244 | #257 | — | — |
| 2003 | 433 | #621 | — | — |
| 2002 | 238 | #942 | — | — |
| 2001 | 216 | #994 | — | — |
| 2000 | 226 | #945 | — | — |
| 1999 | 196 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1998 | 175 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1997 | 164 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 1996 | 129 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1995 | 107 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 1994 | 133 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1993 | 123 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 1992 | 142 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 1991 | 136 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 1989 | 91 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1985 | 90 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 1982 | 77 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,813 | — | — |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,827 | — | — |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,761 | — | — |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,976 | — | — |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 1975 | 68 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,633 | — | — |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,477 | — | — |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,690 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,782 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,831 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,065 | — | — |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,216 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,694 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,028 | — | — |
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).