girls:
54.4k births since 1968
#546 (90th percentile)
boys:
221 births since 1988
#4365 (5th percentile)
overall:
54.6k births since 1968
#1017 (87th percentile)
The name Kiara is the #1,017 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 54,630 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 86.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #546 (90.5% percentile) for all time with 54,409 births since 1968. For boys, it ranks #4,365 (4.8% percentile) for all time with 221 births since 1988.
Kiara first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for girls and 1988 for boys). Birth data for Kiara is available in 55 out of the 56 years between 1968 and 2023 (55 years for girls and 12 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kiara has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kiara reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 91.3% percentile (ranked #78) with 2,067 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 2,067 births per million (ranked 91.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Kiara ranks #220 for girls (76.8% percentile) with 744 births per million, which is 36.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kiara reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 14.9% percentile (ranked #644) with 54 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 54 births per million (ranked 14.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kiara".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kiara. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.5% confident that Kiara is pronounced as kee-AH-ruh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-ah-ruh, at 15.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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