Kiera
#1,096 for girls in 2025, 219 births · Last seen for boys in 1993 at #8,700
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 1,147 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 21,851since 1963
Kiera over time
Rank among girls' names. Kiera has never cracked the top 200 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 | #1,096 | 219 | — | |
| 2024 | #984 | 264 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,098 | 223 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,048 | 244 | — | |
| 2021 | #967 | 268 | — | |
| 2020 | #994 | 256 | — | |
| 2019 | #889 | 301 | — | |
| 2018 | #845 | 321 | — | |
| 2017 | #765 | 362 | — | |
| 2016 | #723 | 393 | — | |
| 2015 | #641 | 445 | — | |
| 2014 | #588 | 504 | — | |
| 2013 | #615 | 455 | — | |
| 2012 | #592 | 493 | — | |
| 2011 | #483 | 618 | — | |
| 2010 | #415 | 759 | — | |
| 2009 | #342 | 961 | — | |
| 2008 | #314 | 1,069 | — | |
| 2007 | #293 | 1,147 | — | |
| 2006 | #301 | 1,093 | — | |
| 2005 | #337 | 942 | — | |
| 2004 | #379 | 827 | — | |
| 2003 | #443 | 676 | — | |
| 2002 | #481 | 584 | — | |
| 2001 | #463 | 601 | — | |
| 2000 | #444 | 636 | — | |
| 1999 | #416 | 671 | — | |
| 1998 | #443 | 582 | — | |
| 1997 | #436 | 584 | — | |
| 1996 | #496 | 484 | — | |
| 1995 | #469 | 536 | — | |
| 1994 | #458 | 558 | — | |
| 1993 | #491 | 512 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #461 | 535 | — | |
| 1991 | #481 | 507 | — | |
| 1990 | #566 | 412 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #510 | 458 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #940 | 179 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,058 | 145 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,072 | 140 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,081 | 134 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,260 | 101 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,283 | 95 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,268 | 101 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,559 | 76 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,440 | 39 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,430 | 38 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,637 | 20 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,423 | 36 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,099 | 41 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,780 | 52 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,213 | 36 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,652 | 17 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,768 | 23 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | — | |
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| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kiera! It came in at #4,896, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kiera is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Colorado#559 · 1 in 4,153
- New Jersey#813 · 1 in 7,453
- New York#851 · 1 in 7,795
- Pennsylvania#1,003 · 1 in 13,869
- California#2,056 · 1 in 30,215
Best ever in a state: #86 in North Dakota, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #559 | 5 | 1 in 4,153 |
| New Jersey | #813 | 5 | 1 in 7,453 |
| New York | #851 | 13 | 1 in 7,795 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,003 | 5 | 1 in 13,869 |
| California | #2,056 | 6 | 1 in 30,215 |
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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 Kiera
- 112 spots since 2024 (#984 → #1,096)
- 102 spots since 2020 (#994 → #1,096)
- 455 spots since 2015 (#641 → #1,096)
- Biggest jump: 430 spots in 1989 (#940 → #510)
- Biggest drop: 112 spots in 2025 (#984 → #1,096)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 2007 at #293 (1,147 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1988–2021
- Highest: 1 in 1,676 girls born in 2007 were named Kiera (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,339 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 39.1% of all girls named Kiera (8,536) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 61 | #2,768 (1969) | #4,861 |
| 1970s | 280 | #1,780 (1975) | #3,161 |
| 1980s | 1,468 | #510 (1989) | #1,247 |
| 1990s | 5,381 | #416 (1999) | #472 |
| 2000s | 8,536 | #293 (2007) | #380 |
| 2010s | 4,651 | #415 (2010) | #656 |
| 2020s | 1,474 | #967 (2021) | #1,031 |
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.
Kiera in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 21,948 of them was named Kiera, which outranked 87.2% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,549Latrina77
- #1,549Paulina77
- #1,549Shaniqua77
- #1,559Kiera76
- #1,559Afton76
- #1,559Brett76
- #1,559Chris76
- #1,568Aleah75
- #1,568Catharine75
- #1,568Janee75
Tied with 8 names at #1,559; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.