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Kiari vs Kiarra

American parents have registered 3,832 Kiarras since 1880, against 1,294 Kiaris. But in 2025 it was Kiari that was commoner, 133 babies to 18.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kiari 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

Of the 45 years in which either name was published, Kiarra for 37 years and Kiari for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kiari Kiarra
Total US births 1,2943,832
Most in one year 136291
Babies in 2025 13318
Estimated living today 1,3003,800
Median age today 524
Peak year 20251999
Best rank 1,880th girls761st girls
Rank in 2025 1,880th6,325th
First recorded 19891981
Girls / boys 1,032 / 2623,832 / 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 Kiarras alive today are over 24; half the Kiaris are over 5. 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 Kiari Kiarra
England and Wales 6256

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: Kiari and Kiarra.