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The first name 
Kiara

Kiara is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.

Kiara – popular and common in the US

The name Kiara 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, Kiara ranks 309. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 6 were named Kiara. In the entire USA, approximately 51,605 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kiara. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Kiara

What does the name 
Kiara mean?

The spelling Kiara has different origins and thus different meanings. If derived from the Italian Chiara, it means ‘bright’, if derived from the Irish Ciara, it means ‘dark-haired’.

Kiara is also... used as a given name in Japan. Depending on the characters used, it could mean 'princess' or 'star', for example.

Kiara -
very special and well known across the entire USA

Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Kiara occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Kiara is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Kiara is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 51,547 women and girls of all generations bear the name Kiara – that is one in 2,991. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Nevada, where one in 1,204 women and girls is called Kiara, while it is particularly rare in Wyoming, where you have to ask an average of 19,270 women for their name to get Kiara as an answer once.

Kiara has 5 letters 
and begins with a K

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.

With five letters, the name Kiara 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 if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.

Other names with 
K, i, a, r and a

If you take all the letters in the name Kiara – K, i, a, r and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Karia or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Kiara

If your name is Kiara 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...

This is how you spell the name Kiara

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kiara, you can simply say:

Koala

Igloo

Apple

Rocket

Apple

This is how the name Kiara is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Kiara in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Kiara

Kiara

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Kiara

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Kiara is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

K
I
A
R
A

Have you ever waved the name Kiara

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.

K
I
A
R
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Kiara sounds like this: