Kearia — girls' name
291 babies named Kearia in U.S. Social Security records since 1989, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
291 girls have been named Kearia since 1989, peaking in the 1990s, last recorded in 2025.
- 291
- total births
- 1989–2025
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 58%
- born in that decade
58% of everyone ever named Kearia was born in this single decade.
23 babies were named Kearia in 1989 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kearia
The Social Security Administration has registered 291 babies named Kearia between 1989 and 2025, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kearia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 23 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kearia performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 168 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kearia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Kearia in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kearia 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 291 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.
Kearia at a glance
Last recorded 2025Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kearia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2025–1989
- Peak year (1989)
- 23
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2025.
291 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1989 with 23 births in a single year.
Kearia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 168 births that decade — 58% of Kearia's all-time total
Kearia decade highlights
- Peak decade 168 births
- Runner-up 90 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Kearia's strongest decade
168 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 58% of all-time use.
Kearia by state
Where Kearia concentrates geographically — total births since 1989
Top 5 states
- Alabama 1.7% of nationwide
- Louisiana 1.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Alabama accounts for 1.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1989–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.