Kira
Kira is a girl's name that peaked in 2005, when it was the 241st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 385th. About 40,000 Kiras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kira boys named Kira
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 40,856
- Estimated living today
- 40,000
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2005
- Best rank
- 241st
- Rank in 2025
- 385th
- First recorded
- 1938
- Girls / boys
- 40,829 / 27
How old the living Kiras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 40,856 babies given the name since 1938, about 40,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 16,000 of them are children and 100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Persian, Irish
Variant of Kyra or ultimately from Persian کوروش. Also used as a respelling of Ciara, from Irish.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kiras
- Kira Muratova (1934–2018)Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter, film actress
- Kira Kosarin (born 1997)American actress and singer
- Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia (1909–1967)younger daughter of Grand Duke Kirill of Russia and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1909-1967); wife of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
- Kira Zvorykina (1919–2014)Soviet chess player
- Kira Yarmysh (born 1989)Alexei Navalny's spokesperson and writer
- Kira Rudik (born 1985)Ukrainian politician
- Kira Kimura (born 2004)Japanese snowboarder
- Kira Grünberg (born 1993)Austrian pole vaulting athlete and politician
People named Kira with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kira is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kira is most concentrated in Hawaii (4.0×), Utah (2.9×), Nevada (2.8×), Alaska (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2005
The most popular girls’ names the year Kira peaked:
Kira elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Kira | 4,993 | 140th |
| Poland girls | Kira | 923 birth registrations | 110th |
| France girls | Kira | 770 | 658th |
| Switzerland girls | Kira | 607 | 180th |
| Scotland girls | Kira | 356 | 164th |
| Belgium girls | Kira | 290 | 545th |
| Ireland girls | Kira | 253 | 263rd |
| Norway girls | Kira | 222 | 287th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Kira | 21 | 263rd |
| France boys | Kira | 15 | 5,538th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Kira: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Kira | 520 | 0.042% | 151st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Kira | 77 | 0.018% | 215th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Kira | 10 | 0.015% | 113th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Kira is most concentrated in Basel-Landschaft, where 0.05% of children were given it – 27 of them.
Kira: rank by region
In 2023, Kira was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Kira | 660 | 7 |
In 2025, Kira was given 2 times or more in 11 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Kira | 116 | 10 |
| Lubuskie | Kira | 100 | 4 |
| Łódzkie | Kira | 104 | 8 |
| Małopolskie | Kira | 150 | 6 |
| Mazowieckie | Kira | 128 | 17 |
| Opolskie | Kira | 123 | 2 |
| Podkarpackie | Kira | 158 | 2 |
| Pomorskie | Kira | 209 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Kira | 133 | 9 |
| Wielkopolskie | Kira | 139 | 7 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Kira | 175 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Kira by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 174 | 99th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Kira among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Kira | 1,122 | 1,225 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Kira lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,644 women called Kira were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Kira | 189 | 0.184 | 513 |
| Gipuzkoa | Kira | 67 | 0.179 | 546 |
| Valencia/València | Kira | 158 | 0.112 | 629 |
| Girona | Kira | 46 | 0.111 | 741 |
| Navarra | Kira | 34 | 0.099 | 820 |
| Lleida | Kira | 22 | 0.099 | 800 |
Listed in 41 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 11 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Kira against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.