Kyrah
Kyrah was given to 49 girls in 2025, #3,229 among girls’ names; 2,489 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,470 Americans named Kyrah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyrah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kyrah?
#3,229 among girls’ names, 2025
Kyrah fell from #2,538 in 2015 to #3,229 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.8 to 30.5 per million.
114 babies in 2008, the peak
Kyrah peaked in 2008, when 114 girls were given it, #1,872 among girls’ names. The 49 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,229 | 30.5 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,994 | 33.9 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,838 | 37.4 |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,221 | 51.8 |
| 2021 | 92 | #2,081 | 56.1 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,458 | 43.9 |
| 2019 | 78 | #2,315 | 46.5 |
| 2018 | 76 | #2,399 | 44.7 |
| 2017 | 76 | #2,393 | 44.0 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,530 | 40.1 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,538 | 39.8 |
| 2014 | 91 | #2,123 | 50.9 |
| 2013 | 82 | #2,273 | 46.7 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,391 | 44.3 |
| 2011 | 91 | #2,110 | 51.7 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,375 | 45.0 |
| 2009 | 96 | #2,111 | 52.3 |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,872 | 60.3 |
| 2007 | 109 | #1,902 | 56.7 |
| 2006 | 100 | #1,997 | 52.6 |
| 2005 | 107 | #1,823 | 57.9 |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,409 | 38.7 |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,939 | 51.4 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,213 | 41.7 |
| 2001 | 98 | #1,809 | 54.4 |
| 2000 | 80 | #2,065 | 44.1 |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,166 | 39.5 |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,259 | 35.7 |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,085 | 39.1 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,263 | 20.5 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,427 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,166 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,852 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,485 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,104 | 8.0 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,745 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,090 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,547 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyrah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kyrah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kyrah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyrah, and how old are they?
2,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,489 Americans ever recorded as Kyrah. The median Kyrah alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,792 people named Kyrah (1,785 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,078 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 135 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 951 |
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 Kyrah born?
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 Kyrah 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 Kyrah?
Kyrah is a less common spelling of Kira: SSA has recorded 2,489 Kyrah and 40,856 Kira since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 89,516 babies since 1880, Kyrah is the fourth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 1,374 babies (3.6%), the fifth 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 Kyrah
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 Kyrah and names like it
- Compare Kyrah and KiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKyrah peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kyrah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kyrah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kyrah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.