Keirah — girls' name
419 babies named Keirah in U.S. Social Security records since 1994, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
419 girls have been named Keirah since 1994, peaking in the 2010s, last recorded in 2025.
- 419
- total births
- 1994–2025
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 45%
- born in that decade
45% of everyone ever named Keirah was born in this single decade.
31 babies were named Keirah in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Keirah
The Social Security Administration has registered 419 babies named Keirah between 1994 and 2025, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Keirah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 31 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Keirah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 190 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Keirah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Keirah in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Keirah 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 419 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.
Keirah at a glance
Last recorded 2025Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Keirah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2025–1994
- Peak year (2008)
- 31
- Annual births at peak — across 32 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2025.
419 total births across 32 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 31 births in a single year.
Keirah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 190 births that decade — 45% of Keirah's all-time total
Keirah decade highlights
- Peak decade 190 births
- Runner-up 175 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Keirah's strongest decade
190 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 45% of all-time use.
Keirah by state
Where Keirah concentrates geographically — total births since 1994
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Ohio | | 6 | 1.4% |
| #2 | California | | 5 | 1.2% |
| #3 | Florida | | 5 | 1.2% |
6 of 419 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Ohio 1.4% of nationwide
- California 1.2% of nationwide
- Florida 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Ohio accounts for 1.4% 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, 1994–2025 (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.