Keara
Keara was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 4,767 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,690 Americans named Keara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 21 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keara mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Keara is “a female given name from Irish, variant of Keira.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keara?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,894, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
259 babies in 1999, the peak
Keara peaked in 1999, when 259 girls were given it, #834 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #9,894 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,745 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,276 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,260 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,391 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,878 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,140 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,445 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,533 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,546 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 32 | #4,502 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,608 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,669 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,885 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 99 | #2,020 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,801 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 148 | #1,556 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 197 | #1,255 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 219 | #1,132 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 192 | #1,196 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 183 | #1,216 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 214 | #1,055 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 191 | #1,104 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 220 | #977 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 257 | #856 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 259 | #834 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 192 | #1,034 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 186 | #1,033 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 151 | #1,197 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 155 | #1,133 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 156 | #1,142 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 145 | #1,195 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 159 | #1,116 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 146 | #1,187 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 108 | #1,446 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 124 | #1,266 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,808 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,972 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,987 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,148 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,243 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,114 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,746 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,587 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,912 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,233 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,979 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,051 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,734 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,097 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,947 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,248 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keara, and how old are they?
4,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,767 Americans ever recorded as Keara. The median Keara alive today is 26 years old; half are between 21 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 4,121 people named Keara (4,106 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,650 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 139 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,530 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,770 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 249 |
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 Keara born?
The states with the most babies named Keara are New York, California and Texas, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 312 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 285 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 247 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 205 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 200 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 197 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 143 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 137 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 108 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 85 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Keara is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keara is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1969 it was given 1.1 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 Keara 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 117,522 babies since 1880, Keara is the fourth most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 578 babies recorded by SSA was a Keara (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Keara
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 Keara and names like it
- Compare Keara and KerriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKeara peaked in 1999.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keara since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Keara.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keara alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.