Keara

Where Keara comes from

The dictionaries list Keara as a given name — a female given name from Irish, variant of Keira — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Irish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1969
    First appearance
    #5,974 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1999
    Peak, #831
    259 babies named Keara — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,792.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish, variant of Keira.
Namesakes

No widely known Keara turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.