Kairah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KY-ra
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Kairah is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
Where does Kairah come from?
Spelling of Kaira; used in South Asian families; also a spelling of Keira
Meaning borrowed from Kaira.
Is Kairah a girl's or a boy's name?
Kairah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kairah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Kairah, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 6 girls.
In 2025, 91 girls in the UK were given Kairah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #479, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Kairah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
How popular is Kairah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Kairah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2019, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
2025 had fewer girls named Kairah than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Kairah in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 166 girls in the US were given Kairah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,200, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Kairah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,472 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,043 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
Names like Kairah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Ayah, Nusaybah, Zainab, Aaliyah, Hafsa, Hiba, Sumayyah, Ruqayyah, Ayra, Rahma, Izzah
Other spellings of Kairah
Names related to Kairah
Kiara, Kara, Kairi, Khaira, Khairah, Kiarah, Kaior, Kairee, Kariyah
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Kairah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kairah, updated 20 October 2026.