Keara
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #9,556
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 259 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,767since 1969
Keara over time
Rank among girls' names. Keara has never cracked the top 800 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 | — | |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 |
| 2015 | #4,488 | 31 |
| 2014 | #4,455 | 32 |
| 2013 | #3,573 | 43 |
| 2012 | #2,654 | 67 |
| 2011 | #2,868 | 60 |
| 2010 | #2,010 | 99 |
| 2009 | #1,792 | 120 |
| 2008 | #1,554 | 148 |
| 2007 | #1,252 | 197 |
| 2006 | #1,130 | 219 |
| 2005 | #1,191 | 192 |
| 2004 | #1,216 | 183 |
| 2003 | #1,055 | 214 |
| 2002 | #1,104 | 191 |
| 2001 | #976 | 220 |
| 2000 | #855 | 257 |
| 1999 | #831 | 259 |
| 1998 | #1,033 | 192 |
| 1997 | #1,030 | 186 |
| 1996 | #1,194 | 151 |
| 1995 | #1,131 | 155 |
| 1994 | #1,141 | 156 |
| 1993 | #1,194 | 145 |
| 1992 | #1,116 | 159 |
| 1991 | #1,189 | 146 |
| 1990 | #1,445 | 108 |
| 1989 | #1,267 | 124 |
| 1988 | #1,802 | 69 |
| 1987 | #1,962 | 57 |
| 1986 | #1,980 | 55 |
| 1985 | #2,137 | 49 |
| 1984 | #2,227 | 44 |
| 1983 | #2,097 | 47 |
| 1982 | #1,735 | 64 |
| 1981 | #2,563 | 36 |
| 1980 | #3,853 | 20 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 |
| 1978 | #3,924 | 18 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 |
| 1976 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1975 | #3,052 | 23 |
| 1974 | #2,922 | 24 |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 |
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| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Keara! It came in at #5,974, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Keara is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#662 · 1 in 3,900
- Tennessee#673 · 1 in 4,289
- Missouri#674 · 1 in 4,652
- Massachusetts#696 · 1 in 5,113
- Wisconsin#709 · 1 in 4,973
Best ever in a state: #331 in Mississippi, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Alabama | #662 | 5 | 1 in 3,900 |
| Tennessee | #673 | 7 | 1 in 4,289 |
| Missouri | #674 | 6 | 1 in 4,652 |
| Massachusetts | #696 | 6 | 1 in 5,113 |
| Wisconsin | #709 | 5 | 1 in 4,973 |
| Arizona | #814 | 7 | 1 in 4,637 |
| Illinois | #832 | 12 | 1 in 5,723 |
| Ohio | #853 | 9 | 1 in 6,467 |
| Virginia | #862 | 6 | 1 in 5,944 |
| Pennsylvania | #969 | 7 | 1 in 7,894 |
| Florida | #974 | 11 | 1 in 7,002 |
| New York | #975 | 14 | 1 in 6,920 |
| North Carolina | #1,005 | 6 | 1 in 7,240 |
| Michigan | #1,024 | 6 | 1 in 8,129 |
| New Jersey | #1,048 | 5 | 1 in 8,242 |
| Georgia | #1,140 | 6 | 1 in 8,068 |
| California | #1,736 | 13 | 1 in 17,133 |
| Texas | #1,860 | 9 | 1 in 17,327 |
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See more about Keara
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest jump: 202 spots in 1999 (#1,033 → #831)
- Biggest drop: 128 spots in 2002 (#976 → #1,104)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1999 at #831 (259 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1999–2001
- Highest: 1 in 6,849 girls born in 1999 were named Keara (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 162,019 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 40.7% of all girls named Keara (1,941) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7 | #5,974 (1969) | #5,974 |
| 1970s | 120 | #2,922 (1974) | #4,911 |
| 1980s | 565 | #1,267 (1989) | #2,162 |
| 1990s | 1,657 | #831 (1999) | #1,130 |
| 2000s | 1,941 | #855 (2000) | #1,213 |
| 2010s | 417 | #2,010 (2010) | #4,354 |
| 2020s | 60 | #7,212 (2020) | #8,627 |
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.
Keara in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 9,408 of them was named Keara, which outranked 93.9% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).