Kira — #456 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kira

The Social Security Administration has registered 40,018 babies named Kira between 1938 and 2024, spanning 87 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kira currently holds the #456 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 1,391 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kira performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 12,085 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Kira shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,679 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kira in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kira 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 40,018 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.