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Kiarra

Gender
Girl
Say it
kee-AR-a
US rank, 2025
#6,324 for girls

Kiarra is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).

What does Kiarra mean?

Spelling of Kiara, from Italian Chiara or Irish Ciara

A spelling of Kiara, which can come from Italian Chiara 'clear, bright' or Irish Ciara 'dark'.

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

Kiarra is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kiarra in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2010, with 8 girls.

Half of all the girls named Kiarra in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

1997Busiest: 8 in 20102019
Kiarra in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20195#4,214
20185#4,204
20174#4,967
20160–
20154#4,951
20140–
20134#4,953
20123#6,108
20114#4,980
20108#2,992
20091#7,377
20086#3,589
20072#6,929
20063#5,259
20057#2,806
20044#3,916
20033#4,560
20020–
20015#2,928
20000–
19990–
19980–
19971#5,110

How popular is Kiarra in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,324among girls
Babies in 2025
18about 1 in 89,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 17% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Kiarra, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 1999, with 291 girls. It first appears in the records in 1981.

Half of all the girls named Kiarra in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 313 girls in the US were given Kiarra or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #822, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.

1981Busiest: 291 in 19992025
Kiarra in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202518#6,324
202415#7,247
202322#5,544
202219#6,224
202128#4,715
202017#6,625
201925#5,161
201824#5,311
201721#5,817
201633#4,344
201532#4,402
201443#3,583
201360#2,836
201250#3,266
201169#2,588
201070#2,589
2009112#1,876
200882#2,354
2007127#1,713
2006171#1,353
2005198#1,164
2004161#1,323
2003177#1,202
2002171#1,192
2001211#1,013
2000265#839
1999291#760
1998146#1,240
1997123#1,384
1996132#1,304
1995131#1,276
1994112#1,422
1993108#1,469
1992104#1,504
199195#1,593
1990119#1,336
1989147#1,120
198830#3,220
198717#4,656
198610#6,609
198510#6,455
19849#6,808
19839#6,703
19828#7,467
198110#6,321

Nicknames for Kiarra

Names like Kiarra

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

Other spellings of Kiarra

Names related to Kiarra

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