Kiera
Kiera was given to 219 girls in 2025, #1,097 among girls’ names; 21,870 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 21,600 Americans named Kiera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kiera mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kiera is “a female given name from the Celtic languages, variant of Keira.”
Also “a female given name from Persian, variant of Kira.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kiera?
#1,097 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiera fell from #642 in 2015 to #1,097 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.25 to 0.14 per 1,000.
1,147 babies in 2007, the peak
Kiera peaked in 2007, when 1,147 girls were given it, #293 among girls’ names. The 219 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 219 | #1,097 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 264 | #984 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 223 | #1,101 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 244 | #1,048 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 268 | #969 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 256 | #996 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 301 | #889 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 321 | #847 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 362 | #765 | 0.21 |
| 2016 | 393 | #723 | 0.22 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 445 | #642 | 0.25 |
| 2014 | 504 | #588 | 0.28 |
| 2013 | 455 | #615 | 0.26 |
| 2012 | 493 | #592 | 0.28 |
| 2011 | 618 | #483 | 0.35 |
| 2010 | 759 | #415 | 0.43 |
| 2009 | 961 | #342 | 0.52 |
| 2008 | 1,069 | #314 | 0.57 |
| 2007 | 1,147 | #293 | 0.60 |
| 2006 | 1,093 | #301 | 0.57 |
| 2005 | 942 | #337 | 0.51 |
| 2004 | 827 | #379 | 0.45 |
| 2003 | 676 | #443 | 0.37 |
| 2002 | 584 | #482 | 0.33 |
| 2001 | 601 | #463 | 0.33 |
| 2000 | 636 | #444 | 0.35 |
| 1999 | 671 | #416 | 0.38 |
| 1998 | 582 | #443 | 0.33 |
| 1997 | 584 | #436 | 0.34 |
| 1996 | 484 | #496 | 0.28 |
| 1995 | 536 | #470 | 0.30 |
| 1994 | 558 | #458 | 0.31 |
| 1993 | 512 | #491 | 0.28 |
| 1992 | 535 | #461 | 0.29 |
| 1991 | 507 | #482 | 0.27 |
| 1990 | 412 | #565 | 0.22 |
| 1989 | 458 | #511 | 0.25 |
| 1988 | 179 | #943 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 145 | #1,060 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 140 | #1,074 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 134 | #1,087 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 101 | #1,263 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 95 | #1,289 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 101 | #1,271 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,565 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,462 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,448 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,697 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,445 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,119 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,792 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,234 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,241 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,461 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,716 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,062 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,800 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,366 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,448 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,537 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,267 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,075 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiera has been given almost only to girls: 19 boys in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kiera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiera, and how old are they?
21,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 21,870 Americans ever recorded as Kiera. The median Kiera alive today is 21 years old; half are between 16 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 18,929 people named Kiera (18,876 women and girls, 53 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,234 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 345 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,870 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,230 |
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 Kiera born?
The states with the most babies named Kiera are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 32 | #524 | 1.2× |
| California | 29 | #959 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #671 | 1.4× |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #412 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,980 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 10 | #888 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #746 | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #667 | 0.9× |
| Connecticut | 7 | #428 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,033 | 0.8× |
Where Kiera is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kiera is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1963 it was given 1.4 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 Kiera 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 247,919 babies since 1880, Kiera is the sixth most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 219 of their 2,956 babies (7.4%), the fourth 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 Kiera
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 Kiera and names like it
- Compare Kiera and KiaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKiera peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiera since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kiera.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kiera alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.