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Ciarra

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ciarra has been given to 3,352 babies in the U.S. since 1979. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1997, with 206 recorded.

Babies named Ciarra, 2024

1 in 371,000

Ciarra 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ciarra: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ciarra means

Ciarra is a given name.

The naming story behind Ciarra

Wikidata records Ciarra as a given name. The entity identifier is Q140435914, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,352 girls were recorded with the name Ciarra between 1979 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 206 in 1997; its best national rank was #956 in 1997.

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.

How common is Ciarra?

Ciarra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 180,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ciarra 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 2024 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ciarra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ciarras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ciarra was born before 1998 — so the typical Ciarra is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
46.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,352
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 46.1% of all recorded uses (1,544).

Is Ciarra 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (206)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#956
1997

Spellings of Ciarra

Ciarra is not the most common spelling — Clara is, with 35.1% against Ciarra's 0.39%.

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 Ciarra is used

Across 1910–2025, Ciarra was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 73,620 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 50,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in 100,000
  8. 8District of Columbia1 in 100,000

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. Ciarra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ciarra around the world

Where Ciarra 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
    1996–2009
    #3,936
    in 2009
  • France
    2007–2016
    #6,447
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1996–2019
    #2,941
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #739
    in 2003

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

Ciarra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#956
1997
Peak year
1997
206 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,352
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ciarra

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

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Names with a curve like Ciarra

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

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Sibling names for Ciarra

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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