Kera
#11,426 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kera has been given to 3,458 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #11,426 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 128 recorded.
Babies named Kera, 2025
1 in 414,000
Kera over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kera?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,426
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kera sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kera was born before 1992 — so the typical Kera is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 28.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,458
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (985).
Is Kera 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
- −731
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,234
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,675
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.35×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 6.3%
- Peak was 1982 (128)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.4% average annual change
Spellings of Kera
Kera is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 12.2% against Kera's 0.08%.
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 Kera is used
Across 1910–2025, Kera was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 114,036 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
- 2Arizona1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in 100,000
- 4Florida1 in 100,000
- 5Georgia1 in 100,000
- 6Indiana1 in 100,000
- 7Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 8New Jersey1 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. Kera has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kera around the world
Where Kera 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 & Wales1996–2011#4,764in 2011
- France1966–2022#7,455in 2022
- Canada1993–2023#3,391in 2023
- South Australia1983–2008#796in 2008
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.
Kera by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kera
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kera
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kera, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kera
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.