Kira

What Kira means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Kira yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #361 in 2015 to #385 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kira?

US: Steady: #361 in 2015, #385 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #560 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2005, when 1,391 girls got the name (#241 that year). First in the US records in 1938.

How common

• About 1 in 2,007 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,846 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (5.13 per 1,000 girls), NH (1.84 per 1,000 girls), ID (1.26 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Kira is #385 in the US and #451 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Kira were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Cora2,428 US · 368 E&W
• Kora603 US · 23 E&W
• Keira469 US · 109 E&W
• Kyra329 US · 88 E&W
• Kori260 US
• Kara226 US · 31 E&W
• Cara168 US · 85 E&W
• Kairi239 US · 9 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Kira

Girls

• Aileen#799Variant of Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Ashlynn#980Variant of Ashlyn, meaning “dream, vision”^*
• Allie#569Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #255 in 2015, #569 in 2025
• Anya#375Editor’s note Up from #550 in 2015 to #375 in 2025 in the US
• Alana#140Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*
• Ashlyn#972“dream, vision”^*

For a brother

• Aidan#326“fire”^*
• Gavin#303Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #70 in 2015, #303 in 2025
• Ahmad#669“praiseworthy”^*
• Tristan#309“riot”^*
• Ivan#162Same root as John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*
• Connor#166“lover of hounds”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Irish & Celtic, Persian, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kira’s. Rank is US 2025.