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Kyaire vs Kyara

American parents have registered 3,507 Kyaras since 1880, against 2,598 Kyaires. But in 2025 it was Kyaire that was commoner, 886 babies to 55.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyaire Kyara

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 40 years in which either name was published, Kyara for 32 years and Kyaire for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kyaire Kyara
Total US births 2,5983,507
Most in one year 886228
Babies in 2025 88655
Estimated living today 2,6003,500
Median age today 120
Peak year 20251999
Best rank 367th boys925th girls
Rank in 2025 367th2,998th
First recorded 19991980
Girls / boys 58 / 2,5403,507 / 0

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 Kyaras alive today are over 20; half the Kyaires are over 1. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kyaire Kyara
England and Wales 9198

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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