Hira — #4225 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Hira

The Social Security Administration has registered 656 babies named Hira between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hira currently holds the #4225 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 35 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hira performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 239 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Hira shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 76 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Hira in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hira in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 656 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.