Ciera
Ciera was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,149 among girls’ names; 11,372 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,200 Americans named Ciera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 25 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ciera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ciera mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ciera is “a female given name, a modern variant of Sierra.”
/siˈɛ.ɹə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ciera?
#11,149 among girls’ names, 2025
Ciera fell from #4,321 in 2015 to #11,149 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 5.0 per million.
682 babies in 1993, the peak
Ciera peaked in 1993, when 682 girls were given it, #375 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,149 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,690 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,587 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,182 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,336 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,989 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,059 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,823 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,700 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,867 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,321 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,285 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,586 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,776 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,280 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 114 | #1,800 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 110 | #1,905 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 142 | #1,598 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 160 | #1,460 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 236 | #1,077 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 322 | #805 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 298 | #830 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 280 | #863 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 348 | #713 | 0.19 |
| 2001 | 440 | #580 | 0.24 |
| 2000 | 474 | #552 | 0.26 |
| 1999 | 483 | #524 | 0.27 |
| 1998 | 497 | #508 | 0.28 |
| 1997 | 534 | #469 | 0.31 |
| 1996 | 537 | #467 | 0.31 |
| 1995 | 575 | #448 | 0.33 |
| 1994 | 600 | #417 | 0.34 |
| 1993 | 682 | #375 | 0.38 |
| 1992 | 613 | #411 | 0.33 |
| 1991 | 524 | #468 | 0.28 |
| 1990 | 560 | #442 | 0.29 |
| 1989 | 528 | #458 | 0.29 |
| 1988 | 488 | #462 | 0.27 |
| 1987 | 520 | #430 | 0.30 |
| 1986 | 447 | #479 | 0.26 |
| 1985 | 249 | #702 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,705 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,073 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,352 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,904 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,694 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,490 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ciera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ciera has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 47 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ciera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ciera, and how old are they?
11,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 11,372 Americans ever recorded as Ciera. The median Ciera alive today is 31 years old; half are between 25 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 9,456 people named Ciera (9,445 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,144 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,320 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 303 |
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 Ciera born?
The states with the most babies named Ciera are California, Ohio and Florida, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 935 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 812 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Florida | 722 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 583 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 472 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 467 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 449 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 448 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 419 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 417 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Ciera is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ciera is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1979 it was given 1.7 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 Ciera 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 212,963 babies since 1880, Ciera is the seventh most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 2,627 babies (<1%), again the seventh most given.
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 Ciera
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 Ciera and names like it
- Compare Ciera and KiaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCiera peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ciera since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Ciera.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ciera alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.