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Kierra vs Kierre

American parents have registered 15,682 Kierras since 1880, against 528 Kierres. Kierra is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kierra against Kierre, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kierra Kierre

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

Kierra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1977, when Kierra had 5 and Kierre had 5.

Side by side

  Kierra Kierre
Total US births 15,682528
Most in one year 87831
Babies in 2025 466
Estimated living today 15,000520
Median age today 2726
Peak year 19951989
Best rank 316th girls2,359th boys
Rank in 2025 3,342nd10,695th
First recorded 19751977
Girls / boys 15,664 / 1894 / 434

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.

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