Ciara is the feminine form of the Irish name Ciar, meaning ‘dark haired’. It is derived from the Old Irish ‘ciar’ for ‘black’.
Ciara is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Ciara isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Ciara ranks 830. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Ciara. In the entire USA, approximately 32,465 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ciara. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Ciara is the feminine form of the Irish name Ciar, meaning ‘dark haired’. It is derived from the Old Irish ‘ciar’ for ‘black’.
In the US,... Ciara has been in use since the 1970s.
Ciara is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Ciara cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #144 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2005. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Ciara, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Ciara seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ciara was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
192 babies were named Ciara in 2022 - that's 1 in 772,041 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Ciara ranked 1,133 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The name Ciara may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Ciara is apparently especially popular in Florida. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,968 women in Florida is called Ciara. In total, that’s 2,495 women who feel addressed when the name Ciara is shouted loudly across Florida and who ensure that their name makes it to #420 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Ciara as the answer a total of 32,465 times. This places Ciara at #661 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Ciara as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Ciara is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Ciara and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ciara, you can simply say:
Cat
Igloo
Apple
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ciara
Ciara
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
I
A
R
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
I
A
R
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ciara sounds like this:
