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Kiaira vs Kiarra

American parents have registered 3,832 Kiarras since 1880, against 508 Kiairas. Kiarra is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kiaira against Kiarra, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kiaira Kiarra

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

Kiarra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1981 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Kiaira had 5 and Kiarra had 17.

Side by side

  Kiaira Kiarra
Total US births 5083,832
Most in one year 42291
Babies in 2025 under 518
Estimated living today 5003,800
Median age today 2724
Peak year 19991999
Best rank 3,099th girls761st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked6,325th
First recorded 19891981
Girls / boys 508 / 03,832 / 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 Kiairas alive today are over 27; half the Kiarras are over 24. 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: Kiaira and Kiarra.