girls:
39.3k births since 1938
#684 (88th percentile)
boys:
27 births since 1982
#4559 (1st percentile)
overall:
39.3k births since 1938
#1254 (84th percentile)
The name Kira is the #1,254 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 39,349 recorded births since 1938. This represents the 83.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #684 (88.0% percentile) for all time with 39,322 births since 1938. For boys, it ranks #4,559 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1982.
Kira first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1938 (1938 for girls and 1982 for boys). Birth data for Kira is available in 73 out of the 86 years between 1938 and 2023 (73 years for girls and 5 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 Kira has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kira reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 74.8% percentile (ranked #249) with 658 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 685 births per million (ranked 74.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kira ranks #394 for girls (58.5% percentile) with 407 births per million, which is 59.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kira reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #690) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kira".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kira. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.2% confident that Kira is pronounced as KEE-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KIH-ruh, at 25.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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