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Kieayla vs Kiera

American parents have registered 21,870 Kieras since 1880, against 18 Kieaylas. Kiera is still ahead, with 219 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kieayla against Kiera, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kieayla Kiera

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

Kiera has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Kieayla had 13 and Kiera had 827.

Side by side

  Kieayla Kiera
Total US births 1821,870
Most in one year 131,147
Babies in 2025 under 5219
Estimated living today 1822,000
Median age today 2120
Peak year 20042007
Best rank 8,259th girls293rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,096th
First recorded 20041963
Girls / boys 18 / 021,851 / 19

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kieayla and Kiera.