girls:
21.4k births since 1963
#989 (83rd percentile)
boys:
19 births since 1989
#4567 (0th percentile)
overall:
21.4k births since 1963
#1745 (77th percentile)
The name Kiera is the #1,745 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,385 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 77.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #989 (82.7% percentile) for all time with 21,366 births since 1963. For boys, it ranks #4,567 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 1989.
Kiera first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (1963 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Kiera is available in 60 out of the 61 years between 1963 and 2023 (60 years for girls and 3 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 Kiera has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kiera reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 71.2% percentile (ranked #285) with 542 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 542 births per million (ranked 71.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kiera ranks #729 for girls (23.0% percentile) with 127 births per million, which is 23.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kiera reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #750) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kiera".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Kiera", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 49 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Kira" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Kira..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kiera. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.9% confident that Kiera is pronounced as KEE-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KIH-ruh, at 36.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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