Kaira
#1,423 for girls in 2025, 152 births
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 186 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,335since 1970
Kaira over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaira has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,423 | 152 |
| 2024 | #1,259 | 185 |
| 2023 | #1,319 | 172 |
| 2022 | #1,468 | 150 |
| 2021 | #1,327 | 169 |
| 2020 | #1,494 | 143 |
| 2019 | #1,251 | 186 |
| 2018 | #1,425 | 155 |
| 2017 | #1,515 | 146 |
| 2016 | #1,929 | 104 |
| 2015 | #2,113 | 91 |
| 2014 | #2,304 | 80 |
| 2013 | #2,568 | 69 |
| 2012 | #2,832 | 61 |
| 2011 | #2,838 | 61 |
| 2010 | #2,938 | 58 |
| 2009 | #2,286 | 85 |
| 2008 | #2,078 | 98 |
| 2007 | #2,433 | 77 |
| 2006 | #2,165 | 89 |
| 2005 | #2,278 | 79 |
| 2004 | #2,889 | 55 |
| 2003 | #2,413 | 68 |
| 2002 | #2,352 | 68 |
| 2001 | #2,740 | 54 |
| 2000 | #2,103 | 77 |
| 1999 | #1,893 | 83 |
| 1998 | #2,798 | 47 |
| 1997 | #3,224 | 36 |
| 1996 | #2,849 | 42 |
| 1995 | #2,977 | 39 |
| 1994 | #3,448 | 32 |
| 1993 | #2,676 | 45 |
| 1992 | #4,088 | 25 |
| 1991 | #2,989 | 38 |
| 1990 | #3,436 | 31 |
| 1989 | #2,714 | 41 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
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| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaira! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaira is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#736 · 1 in 3,892
- Virginia#929 · 1 in 4,745
- New York#967 · 1 in 5,183
- Florida#980 · 1 in 5,672
- California#994 · 1 in 5,889
Best ever in a state: #172 in Hawaii, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #736 | 6 | 1 in 3,892 |
| Virginia | #929 | 7 | 1 in 4,745 |
| New York | #967 | 15 | 1 in 5,183 |
| Florida | #980 | 15 | 1 in 5,672 |
| California | #994 | 28 | 1 in 5,889 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,030 | 8 | 1 in 5,832 |
| New Jersey | #1,038 | 6 | 1 in 5,927 |
| Ohio | #1,132 | 7 | 1 in 6,708 |
| Texas | #1,253 | 22 | 1 in 7,370 |
| Illinois | #1,265 | 6 | 1 in 7,425 |
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See more about Kaira
- 164 spots since 2024 (#1,259 → #1,423)
- 71 spots since 2020 (#1,494 → #1,423)
- 690 spots since 2015 (#2,113 → #1,423)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2019 at #1,251 (186 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,758 girls born in 2024 were named Kaira (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,574 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,251 in 2019, was only 1 in 9,023 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.3% of all girls named Kaira (1,011) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 46 | #4,720 (1974) | #7,070 |
| 1980s | 139 | #2,714 (1989) | #6,138 |
| 1990s | 418 | #1,893 (1999) | #3,038 |
| 2000s | 750 | #2,078 (2008) | #2,374 |
| 2010s | 1,011 | #1,251 (2019) | #2,171 |
| 2020s | 971 | #1,259 (2024) | #1,382 |
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.
Kaira in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 9,329 of them was named Kaira, which outranked 92.5% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,310Renley173
- #1,310Roxanne173
- #1,310Sharon173
- #1,319Kaira172
- #1,319Monserrat172
- #1,319Nairobi172
- #1,319Sana172
- #1,324Avyanna171
- #1,324Faigy171
- #1,324Heather171
Tied with 4 names at #1,319; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.