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Kierra

#3,363 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Kiara

Kierra has been given to 15,682 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #3,363 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 878 recorded.

Babies named Kierra, 2025

1 in 72,100

Kierra over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kierra: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kiara

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kierra means

Kierra is a variant of Kiara.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kierra → 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, 15,664 girls were recorded with the name Kierra between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 878 in 1995; its best national rank was #316 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,252 in 2020 to #3,363 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,585 in 2015 to #3,363 in 2025.

In the United States, 18 boys were recorded with the name Kierra between 1989 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1992; its best national rank was #7,074 in 1992.

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 Kierra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 72,100
46 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 34,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,363
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
49,955 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kierra 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 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kierra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kierras were born

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

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
47.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
15,664
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 47.7% of all recorded uses (7,469).

Is Kierra 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
−370
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−111
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,778
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.2%
Peak was 1995 (878)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#316
1995

Spellings of Kierra

Kierra is not the most common spelling — Sierra is, with 20.4% against Kierra's 3.2%.

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 Kierra is used

Across 2016–2025, Kierra was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 48,317 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 16,667
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  3. 3Indiana1 in 20,000
  4. 4Kansas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7Missouri1 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.

Kierra around the world

Where Kierra 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
    1996–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1982–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kierra

People whose public names include Kierra, 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.

Kierra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,363
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 111
Best rank ever
#316
1995
Peak year
1995
878 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15,664
Count in 2025
46

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,074
1992
Peak year
1992
7 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kierra

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

KieraTierraKierstenCierraTerraKieranKiearraKiarraKiearaKieshaSierraKierstynKielyKirraKiernanTiarraKorraCiarraKierstinSiarraDearraAmirraAmarraKeirra

Names with a curve like Kierra

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

BreanaKailaTylerTaylerCarleyKatlynKaleyDestineeCaylaKaitlynnTiannaAlexandrea

Sibling names for Kierra

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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