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Cieara vs Cierra

American parents have registered 27,659 Cierras since 1880, against 528 Ciearas. Cierra is still ahead, with 63 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cieara against Cierra, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cieara Cierra

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

Cierra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1978 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1982, when Cieara had 12 and Cierra had 41.

Side by side

  Cieara Cierra
Total US births 52827,659
Most in one year 371,687
Babies in 2025 under 563
Estimated living today 52027,000
Median age today 3328
Peak year 19911998
Best rank 3,036th girls181st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,719th
First recorded 19821978
Girls / boys 528 / 027,623 / 36

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 Cierras are over 28. That is 5 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 Cierra.