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 a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kiara, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kiara
Kiara
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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: