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Chiara

#1,066 in 2025Girls' name

Bright, through Chiara

Chiara has been given to 5,927 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #1,066 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 228 recorded.

Babies named Chiara, 2025

1 in 14,500

Chiara over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chiara: meaning, origin, and history

Bright, through Chiara

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chiara means

Chiara belongs to the name family reached through Chiara → Chiara. Its meaning is “bright”.

Origin, language, and formation

Chiara is used in German and Italian.

Chiara comes through Italian Chiara.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Clara and Chiara.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Chiara is pronounced /ˈkja.ra/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,927 girls were recorded with the name Chiara between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 228 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,053 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,328 in 2020 to #1,066 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,853 in 2015 to #1,066 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chiara?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,500
228 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,050
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,066
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,080 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chiara sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,080 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chiara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chiaras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chiara was born before 2007 — so the typical Chiara is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,927
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (1,721).

Is Chiara rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+48
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+262
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+787
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (228)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,053
2002

Spellings of Chiara

Chiara is not the most common spelling — Clara is, with 52.4% against Chiara's 1.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Chiara is used

Across 2016–2025, Chiara was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,030 girls, against 1 in 7,147 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

133 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,030
  2. 2New York1 in 3,333
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 3,704
  4. 4Florida1 in 4,000
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 4,762
  6. 6Colorado1 in 6,250
  7. 7California1 in 6,667
  8. 8Virginia1 in 9,091

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Chiara around the world

Where Chiara ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #580
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1982–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1975–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • France
    1961–2025
    #177
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1946–2013
    #233
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Chiara

People whose public names include Chiara, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Chiara in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Chiara. Linked forms have their own page here.

CiaraClaraKairaKiaraKlaraClaireKláraChairaKlaaraKlaartje

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Chiara by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,066
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 262
Best rank ever
#1,053
2002
Peak year
2025
228 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,927
Count in 2025
228

Names similar to Chiara

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ChizaraChinaSaharaZaharaChiomaSharaAdharaKamaraChisomKeyaraAinaraKyaraKeiaraSamaraKataraTakaraKlaraChinaraAdaraXiomaraChiquitaInaraDayanaraYara

Names with a curve like Chiara

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Chiara, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

XochitlIshaSanaSamiraGreciaKarolinaZairaMalkaDaniaKalinaKaliaLianna

Sibling names for Chiara

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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