Cieara vs Ciera
American parents have registered 11,372 Cieras since 1880, against 528 Ciearas. Ciera is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Cieara Ciera
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
Ciera has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1979 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1982, when Cieara had 12 and Ciera had 25.
Side by side
| Cieara | Ciera | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 528 | 11,372 |
| Most in one year | 37 | 682 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 8 |
| Estimated living today | 520 | 11,000 |
| Median age today | 33 | 30 |
| Peak year | 1991 | 1993 |
| Best rank | 3,036th girls | 375th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 10,917th |
| First recorded | 1982 | 1979 |
| Girls / boys | 528 / 0 | 11,367 / 5 |
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 Ciearas alive today are over 33; half the Cieras are over 30. That is 3 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: Cieara and Ciera.