Meaning not yet researched.
Kyra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 329 in 2025. Its best rank was #179 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #179 in 2005; #830 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kyra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#830 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #179.
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Kyra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 329 girls in 2025. Peak: #179 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 1,912 (2005).
In 2025, 329 US girls were named Kyra, making it the 830th most common girls’ name of the year, down 108 places from #722 in 2024. That is 62 fewer than the 391 girls named Kyra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #179, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,912. For comparison, it was #490 in 2015 and #4,147 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kyra in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 5 babies. In all, 38,308 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 15,649 babies named Kyra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,548 US girls were named Kyra; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 578. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,885 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kyra ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #353 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), Kiara (57,289 babies since 1880), Keira (33,843 babies since 1880) and Kiera (21,870 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keyera, Kyerra and Keyora 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: Keyera (885), Kyerra (346), Keyora (28), Kyrrah (18), Keyrra (12), Keyrah (9).
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 Kyra 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 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 5 | #353 | #436 |
| Nevada | 7 | #401 | — |
| Idaho | 5 | #447 | #300 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #497 | #288 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #514 | — |
| Virginia | 14 | #556 | #448 |
| Ohio | 15 | #657 | #379 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #665 | #276 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #669 | #602 |
| Oregon | 5 | #686 | #359 |
| Maryland | 7 | #693 | #606 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #741 | #565 |
| New Jersey | 10 | #747 | #899 |
| Florida | 22 | #749 | #580 |
| Indiana | 8 | #765 | #311 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #828 | #542 |
| Georgia | 12 | #830 | #577 |
| Colorado | 6 | #853 | #513 |
| Washington | 7 | #863 | #622 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #872 | #558 |
| Illinois | 10 | #890 | #589 |
| Alabama | 5 | #891 | — |
| California | 30 | #945 | #584 |
| Texas | 30 | #972 | #540 |
| Arizona | 6 | #979 | #685 |
| New York | 13 | #1,123 | #630 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,230 | #303 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 329 | #830 | — | — |
| 2024 | 391 | #722 | — | — |
| 2023 | 414 | #698 | — | — |
| 2022 | 451 | #657 | — | — |
| 2021 | 447 | #665 | — | — |
| 2020 | 418 | #678 | — | — |
| 2019 | 517 | #590 | — | — |
| 2018 | 497 | #610 | — | — |
| 2017 | 506 | #594 | — | — |
| 2016 | 578 | #538 | — | — |
| 2015 | 654 | #490 | — | — |
| 2014 | 649 | #485 | — | — |
| 2013 | 769 | #399 | — | — |
| 2012 | 770 | #406 | — | — |
| 2011 | 817 | #388 | — | — |
| 2010 | 929 | #347 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,202 | #272 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,443 | #238 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,759 | #189 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,799 | #195 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,912 | #179 | 6 | #10,898 |
| 2004 | 1,543 | #220 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,459 | #223 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,388 | #226 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,535 | #207 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,596 | #202 | 7 | #8,738 |
| 1999 | 1,470 | #211 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,565 | #199 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,445 | #203 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,083 | #264 | 5 | #9,885 |
| 1995 | 675 | #393 | — | — |
| 1994 | 618 | #405 | — | — |
| 1993 | 647 | #392 | — | — |
| 1992 | 574 | #439 | 5 | #9,222 |
| 1991 | 458 | #510 | — | — |
| 1990 | 407 | #570 | — | — |
| 1989 | 373 | #588 | — | — |
| 1988 | 382 | #559 | — | — |
| 1987 | 243 | #745 | — | — |
| 1986 | 207 | #812 | — | — |
| 1985 | 173 | #916 | — | — |
| 1984 | 192 | #820 | — | — |
| 1983 | 210 | #764 | — | — |
| 1982 | 204 | #792 | — | — |
| 1981 | 150 | #977 | — | — |
| 1980 | 119 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1979 | 134 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1978 | 137 | #997 | — | — |
| 1977 | 111 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1976 | 148 | #894 | — | — |
| 1975 | 115 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1974 | 108 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1973 | 118 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1972 | 117 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1971 | 115 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 1970 | 135 | #945 | — | — |
| 1969 | 134 | #918 | — | — |
| 1968 | 94 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1967 | 91 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1966 | 57 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1964 | 61 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1962 | 50 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1961 | 54 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1960 | 52 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1959 | 45 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 1957 | 38 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,556 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,371 | — | — |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,121 | — | — |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,750 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,147 | — | — |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,677 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,408 | — | — |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,829 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,289 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,300 | — | — |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,990 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,781 | — | — |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,364 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,289 | — | — |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,054 | — | — |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,181 | — | — |
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).