Meaning not yet researched.
Kirra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,239 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,239 in 2008; #4,501 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kirra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,501 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,239.
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Kirra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,239 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 203 (2008).
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Kirra, making it the 4,501st most common girls’ name of the year, up 462 places from #4,963 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 27 girls named Kirra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,239, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 203. For comparison, it was #2,489 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kirra in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 8 babies. In all, 2,605 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,076 babies named Kirra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 445 US girls were named Kirra; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 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), Kyra (38,308 babies since 1880) and Keira (33,843 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kirra 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 | 31 | #4,501 | — | — |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,963 | — | — |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,946 | — | — |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,007 | — | — |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,976 | — | — |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,878 | — | — |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,421 | — | — |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,534 | — | — |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,997 | — | — |
| 2015 | 73 | #2,489 | — | — |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,018 | — | — |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,870 | — | — |
| 2012 | 128 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 2010 | 172 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 2009 | 187 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 2008 | 203 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 2007 | 170 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 2006 | 164 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,123 | — | — |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,323 | — | — |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,694 | — | — |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,749 | — | — |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,371 | — | — |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,676 | — | — |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,784 | — | — |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,764 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,890 | — | — |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,036 | — | — |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,311 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,812 | — | — |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,307 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,800 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,808 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,165 | — | — |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,076 | — | — |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,183 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,255 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,697 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,437 | — | — |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,299 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,225 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,007 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,359 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,399 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,805 | — | — |
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).