Kiera is the anglicized form of Irish Ciara, derived from Irish ‘ciar’ meaning ‘black’. This name was given to someone with dark hair.
Kiera is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Kiera 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, Kiera ranks 692. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Kiera. In the entire USA, approximately 19,049 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kiera. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Kiera is the anglicized form of Irish Ciara, derived from Irish ‘ciar’ meaning ‘black’. This name was given to someone with dark hair.
Kiera is in use... in the US since the 1980s.
Kiera is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Kiera cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #278 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2007. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Kiera, 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, Kiera 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 Kiera was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
242 babies were named Kiera in 2022 - that's 1 in 612,529 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Kiera ranked 945 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Kiera 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 Kiera 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, Kiera 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 19,049 women and girls of all generations bear the name Kiera – that is one in 8,093. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Utah, where one in 3,605 women and girls is called Kiera, while it is particularly rare in Rhode Island, where you have to ask an average of 111,765 women for their name to get Kiera 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 Kiera 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 Kiera 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 Kiera, you can simply say:
Koala
Igloo
Elephant
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kiera
Kiera
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
I
E
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.
K
I
E
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. Kiera sounds like this:
