Ciara
Ciara was given to 155 girls in 2025, #1,408 among girls’ names; 34,883 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 34,300 Americans named Ciara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 20 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ciara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ciara mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ciara is “a female given name from Irish, a new Irish feminine form of Ciaran.”
/ˈki(ə)ɹə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ciara?
#1,408 among girls’ names, 2025
Ciara fell from #757 in 2015 to #1,408 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.21 to 0.10 per 1,000.
2,325 babies in 2005, the peak
Ciara peaked in 2005, when 2,325 girls were given it, #149 among girls’ names. The 155 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 155 | #1,408 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 168 | #1,358 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 170 | #1,332 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 193 | #1,248 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 215 | #1,144 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 188 | #1,216 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 204 | #1,170 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 259 | #1,006 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 244 | #1,054 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 324 | #869 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 372 | #757 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 424 | #672 | 0.24 |
| 2013 | 437 | #647 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 475 | #603 | 0.27 |
| 2011 | 556 | #524 | 0.32 |
| 2010 | 701 | #439 | 0.39 |
| 2009 | 888 | #364 | 0.48 |
| 2008 | 1,041 | #322 | 0.55 |
| 2007 | 1,364 | #257 | 0.71 |
| 2006 | 1,609 | #213 | 0.85 |
| 2005 | 2,325 | #149 | 1.3 |
| 2004 | 980 | #322 | 0.53 |
| 2003 | 791 | #383 | 0.43 |
| 2002 | 904 | #335 | 0.50 |
| 2001 | 1,005 | #315 | 0.56 |
| 2000 | 1,139 | #282 | 0.63 |
| 1999 | 1,219 | #256 | 0.69 |
| 1998 | 1,232 | #250 | 0.70 |
| 1997 | 1,401 | #211 | 0.80 |
| 1996 | 1,429 | #205 | 0.82 |
| 1995 | 1,586 | #187 | 0.90 |
| 1994 | 1,401 | #208 | 0.78 |
| 1993 | 1,436 | #205 | 0.79 |
| 1992 | 1,370 | #210 | 0.74 |
| 1991 | 1,050 | #266 | 0.56 |
| 1990 | 944 | #294 | 0.50 |
| 1989 | 884 | #295 | 0.48 |
| 1988 | 703 | #354 | 0.39 |
| 1987 | 770 | #315 | 0.44 |
| 1986 | 733 | #330 | 0.43 |
| 1985 | 549 | #411 | 0.32 |
| 1984 | 235 | #707 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 175 | #870 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 179 | #860 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 122 | #1,128 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 95 | #1,330 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 74 | #1,558 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,991 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,432 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,805 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,822 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,885 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,494 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ciara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ciara has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ciara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ciara, and how old are they?
34,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 34,883 Americans ever recorded as Ciara. The median Ciara alive today is 27 years old; half are between 20 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 31,895 people named Ciara (31,823 women and girls, 72 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 33,422 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 311 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 17,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,330 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ciara born?
The states with the most babies named Ciara are Florida, Texas and New York, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 18 | #878 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,418 | 0.7× |
| New York | 14 | #1,039 | 1.2× |
| California | 12 | #1,764 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 11 | #816 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 8 | #878 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,243 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,070 | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,011 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,502 | 1.1× |
Where Ciara is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ciara is most over-represented in Florida: since 1972 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ciara with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 201,268 babies since 1880, Ciara is the third most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 155 of their 2,654 babies (5.8%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ciara
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ciara and names like it
- Compare Ciara and KiaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCiara peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ciara since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Ciara.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ciara alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.