Kirra
Kirra was given to 31 girls in 2025, #4,500 among girls’ names; 2,605 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,580 Americans named Kirra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 13 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kirra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kirra?
#4,500 among girls’ names, 2025
Kirra fell from #2,489 in 2015 to #4,500 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 40.9 to 19.3 per million.
203 babies in 2008, the peak
Kirra peaked in 2008, when 203 girls were given it, #1,239 among girls’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,500 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,960 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,944 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,005 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,973 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,877 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,639 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,420 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,534 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,997 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #2,489 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,018 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,870 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 128 | #1,665 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,626 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 172 | #1,359 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 187 | #1,297 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 203 | #1,239 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 170 | #1,405 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 164 | #1,388 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,759 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,121 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,319 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,690 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,745 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,366 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,672 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,781 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,761 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,885 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,031 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,306 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,806 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,301 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,794 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,802 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,159 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,071 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,178 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,252 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,696 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,435 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,298 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,222 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,004 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,358 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,397 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,803 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kirra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kirra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kirra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kirra, and how old are they?
2,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,605 Americans ever recorded as Kirra. The median Kirra alive today is 17 years old; half are between 13 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,219 people named Kirra (2,213 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,386 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 28 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 242 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 719 |
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 Kirra born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,787 | 1.3× |
| California | 6 | #2,942 | 1.6× |
Where Kirra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kirra is most over-represented in California: since 1975 it was given 1.6 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 Kirra 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 Kirra?
Kirra is a less common spelling of Kira: SSA has recorded 2,605 Kirra and 40,856 Kira since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 239,152 babies since 1880, Kirra is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 2,979 babies (1.0%), 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 Kirra
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 Kirra and names like it
- Compare Kirra and KiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKirra peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kirra since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kirra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kirra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.