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Kieara vs Kieth

American parents have registered 2,837 Kieths since 1880, against 771 Kiearas. But in 2025 it was Kieara that was commoner, 5 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kieara against Kieth, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kieara Kieth

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

Of the 99 years in which either name was published, Kieth for 73 years and Kieara for 26 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kieara Kieth
Total US births 7712,837
Most in one year 5288
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 7602,000
Median age today 2655
Peak year 19911964
Best rank 2,420th girls806th boys
Rank in 2025 14,942ndunranked
First recorded 19871915
Girls / boys 771 / 00 / 2,837

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 Kieths alive today are over 55; half the Kiearas are over 26. That is 29 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: Kieara and Kieth.