Meaning not yet researched.
Kierra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #316 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #316 in 1995; #3,364 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kierra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,364 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #316.
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Kierra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 girls in 2025. Peak: #316 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 878 (1995).
In 2025, 46 US girls were named Kierra, making it the 3,364th most common girls’ name of the year, down 371 places from #2,993 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 55 girls named Kierra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #316, reached in 1995. That year also had the most girls given the name: 878. For comparison, it was #1,585 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kierra in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 15,682 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 7,481 babies named Kierra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 608 US girls were named Kierra; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 98. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,941 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kiara (57,289 babies since 1880), Kira (40,856 babies since 1880), Keira (33,843 babies since 1880) and Kiera (21,870 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keyerra 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: Keyerra (293).
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 Kierra 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 | 46 | #3,364 | — | — |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,993 | — | — |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,502 | — | — |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,445 | — | — |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,646 | — | — |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,252 | — | — |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,738 | — | — |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,026 | — | — |
| 2015 | 138 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 2013 | 172 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 2012 | 218 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 2011 | 243 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 2010 | 269 | #952 | — | — |
| 2009 | 360 | #787 | — | — |
| 2008 | 359 | #804 | — | — |
| 2007 | 447 | #664 | — | — |
| 2006 | 483 | #604 | — | — |
| 2005 | 508 | #565 | — | — |
| 2004 | 534 | #532 | — | — |
| 2003 | 529 | #534 | — | — |
| 2002 | 564 | #494 | — | — |
| 2001 | 640 | #433 | — | — |
| 2000 | 764 | #376 | — | — |
| 1999 | 798 | #367 | — | — |
| 1998 | 755 | #376 | — | — |
| 1997 | 826 | #341 | — | — |
| 1996 | 788 | #352 | — | — |
| 1995 | 878 | #316 | — | — |
| 1994 | 839 | #323 | — | — |
| 1993 | 745 | #342 | — | — |
| 1992 | 646 | #398 | 7 | #7,081 |
| 1991 | 613 | #415 | — | — |
| 1990 | 581 | #434 | 5 | #8,867 |
| 1989 | 525 | #463 | 6 | #7,477 |
| 1988 | 213 | #847 | — | — |
| 1987 | 111 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1986 | 118 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1985 | 90 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,214 | — | — |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,668 | — | — |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,181 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,756 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,423 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,385 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,009 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,769 | — | — |
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).