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Kiarra

#6,444 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Kiara

Kiarra has been given to 3,832 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #6,444 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 291 recorded.

Babies named Kiarra, 2025

1 in 184,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kiarra: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kiara

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kiarra means

Kiarra is a variant of Kiara.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kiarra → Kiara → Keira. The family’s meaning is “black, dark, little dark one”, recorded in English with the source elements ciar.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kiara.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,832 girls were recorded with the name Kiarra between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 291 in 1999; its best national rank was #762 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,782 in 2020 to #6,444 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,449 in 2015 to #6,444 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 Kiarra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,444
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kiarra 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kiarra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kiarras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kiarra was born before 2001 — so the typical Kiarra is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,832
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 43.7% of all recorded uses (1,675).

Is Kiarra 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
+981
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+338
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,995
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.2%
Peak was 1999 (291)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#762
1999

Spellings of Kiarra

Kiarra is not the most common spelling — Kara is, with 15.5% against Kiarra's 0.59%.

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 Kiarra is used

Across 1910–2025, Kiarra was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 66,126 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 25,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 33,333
  3. 3Virginia1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 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. Kiarra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kiarra around the world

Where Kiarra 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
    2001–2019
    #4,686
    in 2019
  • Scotland
    2010–2010
    #802
    in 2010
  • France
    2006–2025
    #5,584
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1988–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kiarra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,444
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 338
Best rank ever
#762
1999
Peak year
1999
291 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,832
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Kiarra

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

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Names with a curve like Kiarra

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

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Sibling names for Kiarra

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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