Meaning not yet researched.
Kira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 801 in 2025. Its best rank was #241 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #241 in 2005; #385 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#385 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #241.
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Kira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 801 girls in 2025. Peak: #241 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 1,391 (2005).
In 2025, 801 US girls were named Kira, making it the 385th most common girls’ name of the year, up 70 places from #455 in 2024. That is 112 more than the 689 girls named Kira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #241, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,391. For comparison, it was #361 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kira in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1938 with 5 babies. In all, 40,856 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 12,096 babies named Kira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,983 US girls were named Kira; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 881. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,007 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kira ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #61 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kyra (38,308 babies since 1880), Keira (33,843 babies since 1880), Kaira (3,335 babies since 1880) and Kiara (57,289 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cira, Keirah and Kerah 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 Dutch, German, Hungarian, Latvian, Polish and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cira (591), Keirah (419), Kerah (197), Keyira (102), Kirya (11), Kyrae (5), Kyraa (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 Kira 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 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 11 | #61 | #148 |
| New Hampshire | 7 | #189 | — |
| California | 166 | #202 | #251 |
| Washington | 31 | #233 | #193 |
| Idaho | 9 | #265 | #233 |
| Massachusetts | 22 | #267 | #311 |
| Minnesota | 20 | #277 | #244 |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #298 | #282 |
| Nevada | 9 | #312 | #596 |
| Iowa | 10 | #341 | #320 |
| Colorado | 18 | #343 | #217 |
| Maryland | 16 | #346 | #348 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #351 | — |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #353 | #298 |
| Missouri | 17 | #364 | #455 |
| Virginia | 22 | #366 | #322 |
| New York | 46 | #374 | #310 |
| Oregon | 10 | #375 | #357 |
| New Jersey | 21 | #381 | #274 |
| Florida | 48 | #390 | #383 |
| Michigan | 22 | #400 | #451 |
| Illinois | 21 | #488 | #397 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #512 | — |
| Utah | 8 | #514 | #384 |
| Ohio | 20 | #522 | #422 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #526 | #379 |
| Texas | 58 | #548 | #720 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #553 | #443 |
| Arizona | 11 | #609 | #265 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #616 | #355 |
| Kansas | 5 | #632 | #584 |
| Georgia | 16 | #660 | #541 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #664 | #838 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #736 | #714 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #787 | #599 |
| Indiana | 6 | #986 | #431 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 801 | #385 | — | — |
| 2024 | 689 | #455 | — | — |
| 2023 | 721 | #429 | — | — |
| 2022 | 801 | #390 | — | — |
| 2021 | 814 | #384 | — | — |
| 2020 | 808 | #385 | — | — |
| 2019 | 818 | #383 | — | — |
| 2018 | 829 | #379 | — | — |
| 2017 | 821 | #379 | — | — |
| 2016 | 881 | #369 | — | — |
| 2015 | 910 | #361 | — | — |
| 2014 | 950 | #349 | — | — |
| 2013 | 902 | #355 | — | — |
| 2012 | 886 | #358 | — | — |
| 2011 | 946 | #335 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,036 | #309 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,117 | #296 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,370 | #251 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,266 | #269 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,362 | #249 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,391 | #241 | 5 | #12,502 |
| 2004 | 1,184 | #275 | 6 | #10,742 |
| 2003 | 1,084 | #287 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,126 | #277 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,093 | #287 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,092 | #292 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,106 | #284 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,136 | #274 | — | — |
| 1997 | 892 | #324 | — | — |
| 1996 | 725 | #372 | — | — |
| 1995 | 682 | #388 | — | — |
| 1994 | 676 | #379 | — | — |
| 1993 | 656 | #388 | — | — |
| 1992 | 586 | #430 | — | — |
| 1991 | 531 | #461 | — | — |
| 1990 | 449 | #528 | — | — |
| 1989 | 476 | #494 | — | — |
| 1988 | 559 | #417 | — | — |
| 1987 | 530 | #421 | — | — |
| 1986 | 492 | #436 | — | — |
| 1985 | 591 | #385 | 5 | #7,107 |
| 1984 | 766 | #310 | 5 | #6,880 |
| 1983 | 555 | #395 | — | — |
| 1982 | 891 | #274 | 6 | #6,045 |
| 1981 | 393 | #508 | — | — |
| 1980 | 209 | #787 | — | — |
| 1979 | 152 | #958 | — | — |
| 1978 | 134 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1977 | 144 | #962 | — | — |
| 1976 | 146 | #905 | — | — |
| 1975 | 258 | #613 | — | — |
| 1974 | 193 | #740 | — | — |
| 1973 | 123 | #969 | — | — |
| 1972 | 104 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1971 | 130 | #976 | — | — |
| 1970 | 121 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1969 | 119 | #991 | — | — |
| 1968 | 89 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1967 | 81 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1966 | 85 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1965 | 58 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1964 | 63 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1963 | 44 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1962 | 33 | #2,049 | — | — |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,272 | — | — |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,529 | — | — |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,580 | — | — |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,517 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,908 | — | — |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,462 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,631 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,662 | — | — |
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).