Kierra
#3,342 for girls in 2025, 46 births · Last seen for boys in 1992 at #6,670
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1995 · 878 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,664since 1975
Kierra over time
Rank among girls' names. Kierra has never cracked the top 300 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 | #3,342 | 46 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,976 | 55 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,476 | 45 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,416 | 46 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,729 | 62 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,478 | 71 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,053 | 95 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,017 | 98 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,580 | 138 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,804 | 113 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,351 | 172 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,128 | 218 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,025 | 243 | — | |
| 2010 | #951 | 269 | — | |
| 2009 | #784 | 360 | — | |
| 2008 | #803 | 359 | — | |
| 2007 | #663 | 447 | — | |
| 2006 | #603 | 483 | — | |
| 2005 | #564 | 508 | — | |
| 2004 | #532 | 534 | — | |
| 2003 | #534 | 529 | — | |
| 2002 | #493 | 564 | — | |
| 2001 | #433 | 640 | — | |
| 2000 | #376 | 764 | — | |
| 1999 | #367 | 798 | — | |
| 1998 | #375 | 755 | — | |
| 1997 | #341 | 826 | — | |
| 1996 | #352 | 788 | — | |
| 1995 | #316 | 878 | — | |
| 1994 | #323 | 839 | — | |
| 1993 | #342 | 745 | — | |
| 1992 | #398 | 646 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #415 | 613 | — | |
| 1990 | #434 | 581 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #462 | 525 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #844 | 213 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,267 | 111 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,194 | 118 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,410 | 90 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,018 | 50 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,198 | 44 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,645 | 35 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,147 | 27 | — | |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | — | |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | — | |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kierra! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1978, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kierra is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#80 · 1 in 339
- Louisiana#94 · 1 in 401
- South Carolina#125 · 1 in 537
- Alabama#127 · 1 in 592
- Georgia#171 · 1 in 822
Best ever in a state: #68 in Mississippi, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #80 | 34 | 1 in 339 |
| Louisiana | #94 | 54 | 1 in 401 |
| South Carolina | #125 | 30 | 1 in 537 |
| Alabama | #127 | 35 | 1 in 592 |
| Georgia | #171 | 52 | 1 in 822 |
| Tennessee | #186 | 32 | 1 in 919 |
| North Carolina | #195 | 40 | 1 in 1,001 |
| District of Columbia | #218 | 5 | 1 in 692 |
| Illinois | #221 | 65 | 1 in 1,076 |
| Utah | #242 | 14 | 1 in 1,113 |
| Arkansas | #260 | 9 | 1 in 1,275 |
| Maryland | #279 | 16 | 1 in 1,478 |
| Iowa | #284 | 9 | 1 in 1,525 |
| Indiana | #295 | 19 | 1 in 1,726 |
| Florida | #296 | 45 | 1 in 1,630 |
| Pennsylvania | #303 | 33 | 1 in 1,766 |
| Virginia | #303 | 20 | 1 in 1,663 |
| Ohio | #307 | 33 | 1 in 1,874 |
| Oklahoma | #335 | 10 | 1 in 1,682 |
| Texas | #337 | 75 | 1 in 1,865 |
| Wisconsin | #353 | 12 | 1 in 2,086 |
| Kentucky | #385 | 8 | 1 in 2,470 |
| Michigan | #429 | 19 | 1 in 2,735 |
| Oregon | #439 | 7 | 1 in 2,306 |
| New Jersey | #449 | 14 | 1 in 2,983 |
| Missouri | #454 | 10 | 1 in 2,952 |
| Kansas | #467 | 5 | 1 in 2,488 |
| Minnesota | #511 | 7 | 1 in 3,568 |
| Washington | #584 | 8 | 1 in 3,579 |
| Arizona | #668 | 7 | 1 in 4,011 |
| Colorado | #694 | 5 | 1 in 4,190 |
| California | #760 | 41 | 1 in 5,435 |
| New York | #772 | 18 | 1 in 5,611 |
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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 Kierra
- 366 spots since 2024 (#2,976 → #3,342)
- 121 spots since 2020 (#3,221 → #3,342)
- 1,762 spots since 2015 (#1,580 → #3,342)
- Biggest jump: 423 spots in 1988 (#1,267 → #844)
- Biggest drop: 167 spots in 2010 (#784 → #951)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1995 at #316 (878 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 1988–2010
- Highest: 1 in 2,003 girls born in 1995 were named Kierra (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,941 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 47.7% of all girls named Kierra (7,469) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 25 | #6,189 (1979) | #8,548 |
| 1980s | 1,221 | #462 (1989) | #2,260 |
| 1990s | 7,469 | #316 (1995) | #366 |
| 2000s | 5,188 | #376 (2000) | #579 |
| 2010s | 1,479 | #951 (2010) | #1,712 |
| 2020s | 282 | #2,976 (2024) | #3,341 |
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.
Kierra in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 2,107 of them was named Kierra, which outranked 97.9% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.