Kaira
Kaira was given to 152 girls in 2025, #1,424 among girls’ names; 3,335 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,300 Americans named Kaira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaira?
#1,424 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaira rose from #2,118 in 2015 to #1,424 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 51.0 to 94.6 per million.
186 babies in 2019, the peak
Kaira peaked in 2019, when 186 girls were given it, #1,252 among girls’ names. The 152 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 152 | #1,424 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 185 | #1,261 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 172 | #1,319 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 150 | #1,470 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 169 | #1,330 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 143 | #1,497 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 186 | #1,252 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 155 | #1,431 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 146 | #1,520 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 104 | #1,937 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 91 | #2,118 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 80 | #2,317 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,583 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,844 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,851 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,952 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,299 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 98 | #2,085 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,445 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 89 | #2,172 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 79 | #2,287 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,902 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,425 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,362 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,749 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 77 | #2,110 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,903 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,813 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,256 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,866 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,989 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,478 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,690 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,134 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,005 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,464 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,724 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,731 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,087 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,297 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,177 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,340 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,968 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,632 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,126 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,503 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,596 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,004 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,894 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,499 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,846 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,578 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaira, and how old are they?
3,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,335 Americans ever recorded as Kaira. The median Kaira alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,321 people named Kaira (2,309 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,377 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 53 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 372 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,790 |
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 Kaira born?
The states with the most babies named Kaira are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 25 | #1,067 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 19 | #1,333 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #803 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,491 | 0.6× |
| New York | 8 | #1,590 | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 8 | #622 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 7 | #857 | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #817 | 0.5× |
Where Kaira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaira is most over-represented in California: since 1970 it was given 1.3 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 Kaira 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 237,330 babies since 1880, Kaira is the seventh most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 152 of their 954 babies (16%), 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 Kaira
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 Kaira and names like it
- Compare Kaira and KaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKaira peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaira since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Kaira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.