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Keara

Girls' name

Black, dark, little dark one, through Keira

Keara has been given to 4,767 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1999, with 259 recorded.

Babies named Keara, 2024

1 in 334,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keara: meaning, origin, and history

Black, dark, little dark one, through Keira

Irish

What Keara means

Keara belongs to the name family reached through Keara → Keira. Its meaning is “black, dark, little dark one”.

Origin, language, and formation

Keara is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Keira.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,767 girls were recorded with the name Keara between 1969 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 259 in 1999; its best national rank was #834 in 1999.

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 Keara?

Keara 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 334,000
10 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 162,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
231,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keara 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 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kearas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keara was born before 2000 — so the typical Keara is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,767
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (1,941).

Is Keara 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (259)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#834
1999

Spellings of Keara

Keara is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 17.5% against Keara's 0.15%.

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 Keara is used

Across 1910–2025, Keara was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 54,940 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 25,000
  2. 2Virginia1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 50,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 50,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 50,000

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

Keara around the world

Where Keara 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
    1996–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • Scotland
    1994–2008
    #793
    in 2008
  • Ireland
    1975–2000
    #536
    in 2000
  • Canada
    1991–2014
    #3,202
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1982–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Keara 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
#834
1999
Peak year
1999
259 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
4,767
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Keara

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

KeanaKeannaSharaKyaraKlaraKealaAdaraKeaganKeasiaInaraKeatonSaharaAlaraSiaraKeaniChiaraElaraZaharaMearaYaraKeariAtaraNiaraAdhara

Names with a curve like Keara

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

AlyssiaYessicaKayleAlysaJulisaKierstinJasmyneBryanaKaylanJasmynReannaBrionna

Sibling names for Keara

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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