Kirah
Kirah was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,990 among girls’ names; 1,034 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Kirah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kirah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kirah?
#6,990 among girls’ names, 2025
Kirah fell from #4,190 in 2015 to #6,990 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.6 to 10.0 per million.
57 babies in 2007, the peak
Kirah peaked in 2007, when 57 girls were given it, #3,077 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,990 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,806 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,284 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,353 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,112 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,608 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,948 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,543 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,126 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,298 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,190 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,408 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,747 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,682 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,114 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,805 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,236 | 19.6 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,103 | 29.1 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,077 | 29.6 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,894 | 20.5 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,917 | 30.3 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,137 | 18.5 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,607 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,223 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,262 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,236 | 16.0 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,215 | 22.6 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,387 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,589 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,658 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,799 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,437 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,841 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,275 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,793 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,715 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,446 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,411 | 5.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,828 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,073 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,101 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,597 | 5.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,774 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kirah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kirah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kirah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kirah, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,034 Americans ever recorded as Kirah. The median Kirah alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 844 people named Kirah (839 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 922 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 141 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 595 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 282 |
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).
How common is the spelling Kirah?
Kirah is a less common spelling of Kira: SSA has recorded 1,034 Kirah and 40,856 Kira since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 165,899 babies since 1880, Kirah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 2,823 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Kirah
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 Kirah and names like it
- Compare Kirah and KiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKirah peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kirah since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kirah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kirah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.