Meaning not yet researched.
Kiara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,335 in 2025. Its best rank was #78 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #78 in 1999; #229 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kiara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#229 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #78.
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Kiara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,335 girls in 2025. Peak: #78 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 4,024 (1999).
In 2025, 1,335 US girls were named Kiara, making it the 229th most common girls’ name of the year, up 9 places from #238 in 2024. That is 23 more than the 1,312 girls named Kiara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #78, reached in 1999. That year also had the most girls given the name: 4,024. For comparison, it was #398 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kiara in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 57,289 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 18,939 babies named Kiara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,000 US girls were named Kiara; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,335. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,204 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kiara ranked highest in Wyoming in 2025, at #92 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kara (102,025 babies since 1880), Ciara (34,883 babies since 1880), Chiara (5,927 babies since 1880) and Kaira (3,335 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kerra, Kirah and Keyra are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kerra (1,149), Kirah (1,034), Keyra (981), Keera (794), Kieara (771), Kearra (769), Kyera (599), Kiyara (560), Kiaira (508), Kierah (394), Kyaira (393), Keiarra (360), and more.
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 Kiara 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 13 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 5 | #92 | — |
| Hawaii | 8 | #106 | — |
| New Jersey | 63 | #124 | #202 |
| Maryland | 35 | #133 | #406 |
| Arizona | 47 | #138 | #335 |
| California | 217 | #140 | #284 |
| New Mexico | 9 | #173 | #205 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #174 | — |
| New York | 92 | #177 | #220 |
| Massachusetts | 30 | #184 | #249 |
| Washington | 38 | #193 | #399 |
| Florida | 92 | #204 | #290 |
| Connecticut | 16 | #212 | #222 |
| Nebraska | 11 | #215 | #474 |
| Illinois | 44 | #235 | #519 |
| Georgia | 42 | #248 | #676 |
| Texas | 137 | #254 | #417 |
| Iowa | 14 | #254 | — |
| South Carolina | 20 | #254 | #446 |
| Tennessee | 30 | #259 | #530 |
| North Carolina | 42 | #262 | #491 |
| Virginia | 31 | #268 | #489 |
| Pennsylvania | 40 | #274 | #475 |
| Utah | 16 | #282 | #325 |
| Oregon | 13 | #284 | #499 |
| Indiana | 25 | #286 | #601 |
| Colorado | 21 | #293 | — |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #303 | #317 |
| Kentucky | 14 | #322 | #595 |
| Ohio | 34 | #329 | #821 |
| Louisiana | 14 | #331 | #630 |
| Missouri | 18 | #337 | #709 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #364 | — |
| Alabama | 12 | #413 | — |
| Kansas | 8 | #425 | #432 |
| Nevada | 6 | #473 | #243 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #663 | — |
| Michigan | 11 | #710 | #489 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,335 | #229 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,312 | #238 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,304 | #230 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,223 | #251 | — | — |
| 2021 | 990 | #332 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,037 | #307 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,093 | #301 | — | — |
| 2018 | 962 | #336 | — | — |
| 2017 | 889 | #356 | — | — |
| 2016 | 855 | #384 | — | — |
| 2015 | 817 | #398 | — | — |
| 2014 | 925 | #353 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,037 | #311 | — | — |
| 2012 | 921 | #345 | — | — |
| 2011 | 988 | #318 | — | — |
| 2010 | 984 | #326 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,158 | #285 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,422 | #242 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,621 | #212 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,906 | #184 | 6 | #11,420 |
| 2005 | 2,149 | #159 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,828 | #187 | 7 | #9,495 |
| 2003 | 1,876 | #173 | 6 | #10,295 |
| 2002 | 2,103 | #156 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2,290 | #144 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2,560 | #130 | 7 | #8,712 |
| 1999 | 4,024 | #78 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,734 | #172 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,263 | #238 | 5 | #10,099 |
| 1996 | 1,389 | #213 | 5 | #9,849 |
| 1995 | 1,451 | #204 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,445 | #203 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,522 | #193 | 8 | #6,569 |
| 1992 | 1,568 | #193 | 10 | #5,464 |
| 1991 | 1,735 | #174 | 13 | #4,362 |
| 1990 | 1,690 | #171 | 35 | #2,109 |
| 1989 | 2,624 | #115 | 114 | #957 |
| 1988 | 222 | #820 | 5 | #7,953 |
| 1987 | 128 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1986 | 94 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1985 | 99 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1984 | 73 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,828 | — | — |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,154 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,459 | — | — |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,622 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,355 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,685 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,917 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,261 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,563 | — | — |
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).