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Cieara

Gender
Girl
Say it
see-AIR-a
Origin
Irish

Cieara is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “dark”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Cieara mean?

Irish: respelling of Ciara, feminine of Ciar 'dark'

“dark”

Variant of Ciara, the feminine form of the Irish name Ciar, meaning dark or black.

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

Cieara is a girls' name.

How popular is Cieara in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1991, with 37 girls. It first appears in the records in 1982.

Half of all the girls named Cieara in the US since 1880 were born between 1988 and 1999, the years shaded on the chart below.

1982Busiest: 37 in 19912009
Cieara in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20096#15,236
20080–
20076#15,485
20069#11,412
200522#5,595
20049#10,684
200310#9,666
200211#8,831
200120#5,565
200023#4,976
199919#5,418
199819#5,359
199721#4,815
199614#6,387
199518#5,216
199425#4,110
199329#3,676
199229#3,674
199137#3,030
199035#3,151
198931#3,324
198832#3,090
198724#3,621
198633#2,844
198527#3,245
19847#8,149
19830–
198212#5,532

Names like Cieara

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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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, “Cieara: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cieara, updated 20 October 2026.