Kiera — #981 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kiera

The Social Security Administration has registered 21,630 babies named Kiera between 1963 and 2024, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kiera currently holds the #981 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 1,147 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kiera performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 8,536 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kiera shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,880 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Kiera in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kiera 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 21,630 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.