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Cearra

Gender
Girl
Say it
KEER-a
Origin
Irish

Cearra is a girls' name of Irish origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Cearra come from?

Irish: spelling of Ceara; probably a respelling of Ciara, feminine of Ciar 'dark'

Meaning borrowed from Ceara.

Is Cearra a girl's or a boy's name?

Cearra is a girls' name.

How popular is Cearra in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 28 girls. It first appears in the records in 1986.

Half of all the girls named Cearra in the US since 1880 were born between 1994 and 2001, the years shaded on the chart below.

1986Busiest: 28 in 19962010
Cearra in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20105#16,985
20095#17,288
20080–
20070–
200615#7,865
20059#10,915
20049#10,684
200313#7,993
200222#5,250
200121#5,359
200024#4,786
199922#4,864
199821#4,951
199725#4,236
199628#3,826
199516#5,672
199420#4,840
199310#8,045
199215#6,001
199125#4,053
199011#7,297
19898#8,755
19880–
19875#11,320
19868#7,745

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Cearra: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cearra, updated 20 October 2026.