Kiara
Kiara was given to 1,335 girls in 2025, #229 among girls’ names; 57,289 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 56,500 Americans named Kiara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 14 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kiara mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kiara is “a female given name from Irish, variant of Keira and Ciara.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kiara?
#229 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiara rose from #398 in 2015 to #229 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.46 to 0.83 per 1,000.
4,024 babies in 1999, the peak
Kiara peaked in 1999, when 4,024 girls were given it, #78 among girls’ names. The 1,335 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,335 | #229 | 0.83 |
| 2024 | 1,312 | #238 | 0.81 |
| 2023 | 1,304 | #230 | 0.81 |
| 2022 | 1,223 | #251 | 0.75 |
| 2021 | 990 | #332 | 0.60 |
| 2020 | 1,037 | #307 | 0.64 |
| 2019 | 1,093 | #301 | 0.65 |
| 2018 | 962 | #336 | 0.57 |
| 2017 | 889 | #356 | 0.51 |
| 2016 | 855 | #384 | 0.48 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 817 | #398 | 0.46 |
| 2014 | 925 | #353 | 0.52 |
| 2013 | 1,037 | #311 | 0.59 |
| 2012 | 921 | #345 | 0.52 |
| 2011 | 988 | #318 | 0.56 |
| 2010 | 984 | #326 | 0.55 |
| 2009 | 1,158 | #285 | 0.63 |
| 2008 | 1,422 | #242 | 0.75 |
| 2007 | 1,621 | #212 | 0.84 |
| 2006 | 1,906 | #184 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 2,149 | #159 | 1.2 |
| 2004 | 1,828 | #187 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 1,876 | #173 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 2,103 | #156 | 1.2 |
| 2001 | 2,290 | #144 | 1.3 |
| 2000 | 2,560 | #130 | 1.4 |
| 1999 | 4,024 | #78 | 2.3 |
| 1998 | 1,734 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 1997 | 1,263 | #238 | 0.73 |
| 1996 | 1,389 | #213 | 0.79 |
| 1995 | 1,451 | #204 | 0.83 |
| 1994 | 1,445 | #203 | 0.81 |
| 1993 | 1,522 | #193 | 0.84 |
| 1992 | 1,568 | #193 | 0.85 |
| 1991 | 1,735 | #174 | 0.93 |
| 1990 | 1,690 | #171 | 0.89 |
| 1989 | 2,624 | #115 | 1.4 |
| 1988 | 222 | #820 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 128 | #1,153 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 94 | #1,373 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 99 | #1,335 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 73 | #1,556 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,616 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,480 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,874 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,828 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,259 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,154 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,683 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,458 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,445 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,622 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,353 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,683 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,915 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,259 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,561 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiara has been given almost only to girls: 221 boys in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kiara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiara, and how old are they?
56,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 57,289 Americans ever recorded as Kiara. The median Kiara alive today is 23 years old; half are between 14 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 43,748 people named Kiara (43,565 women and girls, 183 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 49,795 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 202 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 28,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13,700 |
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 Kiara born?
The states with the most babies named Kiara are California, Texas and New York, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 217 | #140 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 137 | #254 | 0.8× |
| New York | 92 | #177 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 92 | #204 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 63 | #124 | 1.4× |
| Arizona | 47 | #138 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 44 | #235 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 42 | #248 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 42 | #262 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 40 | #274 | 0.8× |
Where Kiara is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kiara is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1968 it was given 1.5 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 Kiara 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 224,092 babies since 1880, Kiara is the most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,335 of their 2,911 babies (46%), again the most given.
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 Kiara
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 Kiara and names like it
- Compare Kiara and KiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKiara peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiara since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Kiara.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kiara alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.