Ciara
#1,406 for girls in 2025, 155 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,229
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 2,325 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 34,876since 1972
Ciara over time
Rank among girls' names. Ciara has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,406 | 155 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,358 | 168 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,330 | 170 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,246 | 193 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,143 | 215 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,214 | 188 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,170 | 204 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,006 | 259 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,054 | 244 | — | |
| 2016 | #869 | 324 | — | |
| 2015 | #757 | 372 | — | |
| 2014 | #672 | 424 | — | |
| 2013 | #647 | 437 | — | |
| 2012 | #602 | 475 | — | |
| 2011 | #524 | 556 | — | |
| 2010 | #439 | 701 | — | |
| 2009 | #364 | 888 | — | |
| 2008 | #322 | 1,041 | — | |
| 2007 | #257 | 1,364 | — | |
| 2006 | #213 | 1,609 | — | |
| 2005 | #149 | 2,325 | — | |
| 2004 | #322 | 980 | — | |
| 2003 | #383 | 791 | — | |
| 2002 | #335 | 904 | — | |
| 2001 | #315 | 1,005 | — | |
| 2000 | #282 | 1,139 | — | |
| 1999 | #256 | 1,219 | — | |
| 1998 | #250 | 1,232 | — | |
| 1997 | #211 | 1,401 | — | |
| 1996 | #205 | 1,429 | — | |
| 1995 | #187 | 1,586 | — | |
| 1994 | #208 | 1,401 | — | |
| 1993 | #205 | 1,436 | — | |
| 1992 | #210 | 1,370 | — | |
| 1991 | #266 | 1,050 | — | |
| 1990 | #294 | 944 | — | |
| 1989 | #295 | 884 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #354 | 703 | — | |
| 1987 | #314 | 770 | — | |
| 1986 | #330 | 733 | — | |
| 1985 | #409 | 549 | — | |
| 1984 | #705 | 235 | — | |
| 1983 | #869 | 175 | — | |
| 1982 | #859 | 179 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,128 | 122 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,328 | 95 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,555 | 74 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,987 | 48 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,423 | 36 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,792 | 27 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,863 | 16 | — | |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ciara! It came in at #8,292, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ciara is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Dakota#62 · 1 in 215
- New Mexico#66 · 1 in 298
- Mississippi#72 · 1 in 313
- New Jersey#80 · 1 in 390
- Pennsylvania#92 · 1 in 461
Best ever in a state: #62 in South Dakota, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | #62 | 15 | 1 in 215 |
| New Mexico | #66 | 28 | 1 in 298 |
| Mississippi | #72 | 37 | 1 in 313 |
| New Jersey | #80 | 104 | 1 in 390 |
| Pennsylvania | #92 | 119 | 1 in 461 |
| New York | #97 | 195 | 1 in 488 |
| Connecticut | #100 | 35 | 1 in 407 |
| Louisiana | #100 | 46 | 1 in 428 |
| Florida | #103 | 166 | 1 in 516 |
| West Virginia | #103 | 17 | 1 in 404 |
| Rhode Island | #106 | 10 | 1 in 375 |
| Massachusetts | #108 | 60 | 1 in 475 |
| Arizona | #109 | 77 | 1 in 461 |
| Alabama | #118 | 39 | 1 in 506 |
| Arkansas | #123 | 23 | 1 in 535 |
| Kentucky | #123 | 39 | 1 in 505 |
| Tennessee | #124 | 53 | 1 in 586 |
| Virginia | #125 | 65 | 1 in 571 |
| Delaware | #128 | 7 | 1 in 443 |
| Montana | #130 | 7 | 1 in 404 |
| South Carolina | #130 | 29 | 1 in 602 |
| Georgia | #131 | 82 | 1 in 627 |
| North Dakota | #132 | 6 | 1 in 403 |
| Michigan | #141 | 73 | 1 in 649 |
| Indiana | #156 | 48 | 1 in 677 |
| Hawaii | #160 | 7 | 1 in 473 |
| Illinois | #167 | 88 | 1 in 763 |
| Maine | #167 | 7 | 1 in 627 |
| Texas | #170 | 204 | 1 in 787 |
| Missouri | #171 | 37 | 1 in 784 |
| Maryland | #172 | 33 | 1 in 751 |
| Ohio | #178 | 67 | 1 in 855 |
| Nevada | #190 | 17 | 1 in 682 |
| Colorado | #194 | 32 | 1 in 773 |
| Wisconsin | #197 | 29 | 1 in 864 |
| District of Columbia | #199 | 5 | 1 in 627 |
| Kansas | #206 | 17 | 1 in 810 |
| California | #208 | 226 | 1 in 1,020 |
| North Carolina | #217 | 46 | 1 in 987 |
| Nebraska | #219 | 10 | 1 in 829 |
| Idaho | #234 | 8 | 1 in 857 |
| Oregon | #257 | 15 | 1 in 1,060 |
| Washington | #262 | 27 | 1 in 1,087 |
| Iowa | #269 | 12 | 1 in 1,140 |
| Minnesota | #292 | 19 | 1 in 1,369 |
| Utah | #303 | 15 | 1 in 1,227 |
| Oklahoma | #327 | 12 | 1 in 1,389 |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
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| Wyoming | — | — | — |
Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ciara
- 48 spots since 2024 (#1,358 → #1,406)
- 192 spots since 2020 (#1,214 → #1,406)
- 649 spots since 2015 (#757 → #1,406)
- Biggest jump: 296 spots in 1985 (#705 → #409)
- Biggest drop: 185 spots in 2017 (#869 → #1,054)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2005 at #149 (2,325 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1982–2016
- Highest: 1 in 795 girls born in 2005 were named Ciara (0.13%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,369 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 37.5% of all girls named Ciara (13,068) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 232 | #1,555 (1979) | #3,389 |
| 1980s | 4,445 | #295 (1989) | #659 |
| 1990s | 13,068 | #187 (1995) | #229 |
| 2000s | 12,046 | #149 (2005) | #294 |
| 2010s | 3,996 | #439 (2010) | #774 |
| 2020s | 1,089 | #1,143 (2021) | #1,283 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ciara in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 795 of them was named Ciara, which outranked 99.2% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.