Kiarra
Kiarra was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,444 among girls’ names; 3,832 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,780 Americans named Kiarra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 20 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiarra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kiarra?
#6,444 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiarra fell from #4,449 in 2015 to #6,444 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.9 to 11.2 per million.
291 babies in 1999, the peak
Kiarra peaked in 1999, when 291 girls were given it, #762 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,444 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,425 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,648 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,350 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,777 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,782 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,229 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,390 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,938 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,392 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,449 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,622 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,857 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,295 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,602 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,599 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 112 | #1,885 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,369 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 127 | #1,717 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 171 | #1,356 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 198 | #1,165 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 161 | #1,326 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 177 | #1,206 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 171 | #1,194 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 211 | #1,017 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 265 | #839 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 291 | #762 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 146 | #1,247 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 123 | #1,384 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 132 | #1,306 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 131 | #1,281 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 112 | #1,427 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 108 | #1,477 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 104 | #1,510 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 95 | #1,597 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 119 | #1,340 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 147 | #1,125 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,262 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,769 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,845 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,697 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,070 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,996 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,816 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,565 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiarra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiarra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kiarra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiarra, and how old are they?
3,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,832 Americans ever recorded as Kiarra. The median Kiarra alive today is 25 years old; half are between 20 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 3,022 people named Kiarra (3,014 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,676 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 1,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 355 |
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 Kiarra born?
The states with the most babies named Kiarra are New York, California and Texas, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 250 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 248 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 190 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 189 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 176 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 135 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 117 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 110 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 108 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 103 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Kiarra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kiarra is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1981 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 Kiarra 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 Kiarra?
Kiarra is a less common spelling of Kiara: SSA has recorded 3,832 Kiarra and 57,289 Kiara since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 205,578 babies since 1880, Kiarra is the seventh most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 2,692 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Kiarra
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 Kiarra and names like it
- Compare Kiarra and KiaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKiarra peaked in 1999.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiarra since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Kiarra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kiarra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.