Kiarah
Kiarah was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,550 among girls’ names; 1,448 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Kiarah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiarah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kiarah?
#3,550 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiarah rose from #4,353 in 2015 to #3,550 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 18.5 to 26.8 per million.
81 babies in 1999, the peak
Kiarah peaked in 1999, when 81 girls were given it, #1,943 among girls’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,550 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,167 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,404 | 29.3 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,156 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,479 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,607 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,976 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,038 | 21.2 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,997 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,217 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,353 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,691 | 23.5 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,817 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,957 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,193 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,665 | 24.2 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,712 | 23.4 |
| 2008 | 49 | #3,404 | 25.9 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,194 | 28.1 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,035 | 29.5 |
| 2005 | 75 | #2,367 | 40.6 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,136 | 18.5 |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,720 | 31.7 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,915 | 28.4 |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,391 | 36.7 |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,246 | 38.5 |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,943 | 45.7 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,906 | 25.5 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,494 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,823 | 24.5 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,609 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,305 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,585 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,944 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,790 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,656 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,415 | 8.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiarah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiarah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kiarah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiarah, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,448 Americans ever recorded as Kiarah. The median Kiarah alive today is 20 years old; half are between 11 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 941 people named Kiarah (934 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,232 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 169 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 823 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 440 |
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 Kiarah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #2,331 | 0.7× |
Where Kiarah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kiarah is most over-represented in New York: since 1989 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 Kiarah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kiarah?
Kiarah is a less common spelling of Kiara: SSA has recorded 1,448 Kiarah and 57,289 Kiara since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 166,290 babies since 1880, Kiarah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 2,657 babies (1.6%), the sixth 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 Kiarah
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 Kiarah and names like it
- Compare Kiarah and KiaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKiarah peaked in 1999.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiarah since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Kiarah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kiarah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.