Keira Girl
How popular is Keira?
#621 girl name in 2025
469 baby girls were named Keira in the US in 2025, making it the 621st most popular girl name.
Keira popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #621 for girls (▼ 16 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 469 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-64% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #245 in 2015, #467 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2006 (3,022 girls) |
| Highest rank | #110 in 2006 |
| First recorded | 1962 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Keira counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Keira family of names ranked #578 for girls in 2025 (#561 the year before), with 487 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Keira | 469 | 96% |
| Keyra | 13 | 3% |
| Keirah | 5 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Keira is most popular
Babies named Keira per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Massachusetts: 1.1 per 1,000 (138 girls)
- New Hampshire: 1.0 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- Connecticut: 0.7 per 1,000 (43 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.7 per 1,000 (131 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.7 per 1,000 (169 girls)
Keira by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 99 | #2,454 |
| 1970s | 359 | #1,498 |
| 1980s | 637 | #1,409 |
| 1990s | 1,390 | #1,033 |
| 2000s | 14,520 | #110 |
| 2010s | 13,440 | #165 |
| 2020s | 3,391 | #467 |
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Questions
- Is Keira a boy or girl name?
- Keira is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Keira were girls.
- How popular is the name Keira?
- 469 baby girls were named Keira in the US in 2025, making it the 621st most popular girl name.
- When was Keira most popular?
- Keira peaked in 2006, when 3,022 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #110 in 2006.
- How many people are named Keira?
- 33,843 babies have been named Keira in the US since 1880. We estimate about 33,559 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 17.
- Where is Keira most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Keira was most common in Massachusetts, at 1.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.