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The first name 
Kyra

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

Kyra – popular and common in the US

The name Kyra 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, Kyra ranks 496. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Kyra. In the entire USA, approximately 34,300 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kyra. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

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

What does the name 
Kyra mean?

For the name Kyra, there are two different origins: It can derive from the Greek word ‘kurá’ meaning ‘lady’, or Cyra, a Persian name meaning ‘sun’, ‘throne’ or ‘born in the light’.

In the U.S.,... this name had its most popular phase in the 1990s and 2000s.

Kyra -
at home in every state from California to New York

The name Kyra 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 Kyra is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,584 women in Nevada is called Kyra. In total, that’s 282 women who feel addressed when the name Kyra is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #377 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 Kyra as the answer a total of 34,300 times. This places Kyra at #643 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 Kyra as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.

Kyra has 4 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 four letters, the name Kyra is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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, y, r and a

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

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Kyra

If your name is Kyra 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 Kyra

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

Koala

Yoyo

Rocket

Apple

This is how the name Kyra 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 Kyra in Braille?

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

Kyra

Kyra

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

K
Y
R
A

Have you ever waved the name Kyra

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
Y
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. Kyra sounds like this: