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Kaira

#1,424 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kaira has been given to 3,335 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #1,424 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 186 recorded.

Babies named Kaira, 2025

1 in 21,800

Kaira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaira: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaira means

Kaira is a given name.

The naming story behind Kaira

Wikidata records Kaira as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q65257135, 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, 3,335 girls were recorded with the name Kaira between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 186 in 2019; its best national rank was #1,252 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,497 in 2020 to #1,424 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,118 in 2015 to #1,424 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.

How common is Kaira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,800
152 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,424
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,119 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaira 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,119 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kairas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaira was born before 2014 — so the typical Kaira is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,335
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (1,011).

Is Kaira 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
−163
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+73
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+694
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.7%
Peak was 2019 (186)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,252
2019

Spellings of Kaira

Kaira is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 25.3% against Kaira's 0.11%.

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 Kaira is used

Across 2016–2025, Kaira was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 9,316 across all states with data. It was least common in Colorado (1 in 50,000).

225 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 4,000
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 5,000
  3. 3California1 in 5,556
  4. 4Washington1 in 5,882
  5. 5New York1 in 7,692
  6. 6Virginia1 in 8,333
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 9,091
  8. 8Texas1 in 10,000

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.

Kaira around the world

Where Kaira 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
    #483
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2022
    #380
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2022–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    1956–2025
    #3,307
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #708
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1970–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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 Kaira

People whose public names include Kaira, 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.

Kaira in other languages

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

KaraKiraCairaKeiraKiaraChiaraChaira

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

Kaira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,424
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 73
Best rank ever
#1,252
2019
Peak year
2019
186 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,335
Count in 2025
152

Names similar to Kaira

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

KailiKailyKairiKaiyaKailahKaijaKaiahSairaKailaKaidenKaisaKaidaZairaKailieKaidynKaisleyKaiyahKailinShiraAdiraKailynnMairaKaileaKaisha

Names with a curve like Kaira

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

RaineArielaSafaAmeeraFaigyTalaAriesGiuliaAmalMalkyAriadnaMeera

Sibling names for Kaira

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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