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Kiaira vs Kiara

American parents have registered 57,289 Kiaras since 1880, against 508 Kiairas. Kiara is still ahead, with 1,335 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kiaira against Kiara, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kiaira Kiara

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kiara has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1995, when Kiaira had 37 and Kiara had 1,451.

Side by side

  Kiaira Kiara
Total US births 50857,289
Most in one year 424,024
Babies in 2025 under 51,335
Estimated living today 50057,000
Median age today 2722
Peak year 19991999
Best rank 3,099th girls78th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked229th
First recorded 19891968
Girls / boys 508 / 057,068 / 221

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kiairas alive today are over 27; half the Kiaras are over 22. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kiaira and Kiara.