Ciara
#1,406 for girls in 2025, 155 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,229
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 2,325 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 34,876since 1972
Ciara over time
Rank among girls' names. Ciara has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,406 | 155 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,358 | 168 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,330 | 170 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,246 | 193 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,143 | 215 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,214 | 188 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,170 | 204 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,006 | 259 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,054 | 244 | — | |
| 2016 | #869 | 324 | — | |
| 2015 | #757 | 372 | — | |
| 2014 | #672 | 424 | — | |
| 2013 | #647 | 437 | — | |
| 2012 | #602 | 475 | — | |
| 2011 | #524 | 556 | — | |
| 2010 | #439 | 701 | — | |
| 2009 | #364 | 888 | — | |
| 2008 | #322 | 1,041 | — | |
| 2007 | #257 | 1,364 | — | |
| 2006 | #213 | 1,609 | — | |
| 2005 | #149 | 2,325 | — | |
| 2004 | #322 | 980 | — | |
| 2003 | #383 | 791 | — | |
| 2002 | #335 | 904 | — | |
| 2001 | #315 | 1,005 | — | |
| 2000 | #282 | 1,139 | — | |
| 1999 | #256 | 1,219 | — | |
| 1998 | #250 | 1,232 | — | |
| 1997 | #211 | 1,401 | — | |
| 1996 | #205 | 1,429 | — | |
| 1995 | #187 | 1,586 | — | |
| 1994 | #208 | 1,401 | — | |
| 1993 | #205 | 1,436 | — | |
| 1992 | #210 | 1,370 | — | |
| 1991 | #266 | 1,050 | — | |
| 1990 | #294 | 944 | — | |
| 1989 | #295 | 884 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #354 | 703 | — | |
| 1987 | #314 | 770 | — | |
| 1986 | #330 | 733 | — | |
| 1985 | #409 | 549 | — | |
| 1984 | #705 | 235 | — | |
| 1983 | #869 | 175 | — | |
| 1982 | #859 | 179 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,128 | 122 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,328 | 95 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,555 | 74 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,987 | 48 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,423 | 36 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,792 | 27 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,863 | 16 | — | |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ciara! It came in at #8,292, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Ciara
- 48 spots since 2024 (#1,358 → #1,406)
- 192 spots since 2020 (#1,214 → #1,406)
- 649 spots since 2015 (#757 → #1,406)
- Biggest jump: 296 spots in 1985 (#705 → #409)
- Biggest drop: 185 spots in 2017 (#869 → #1,054)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2005 at #149 (2,325 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1982–2016
- Highest: 1 in 795 girls born in 2005 were named Ciara (0.13%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,369 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 37.5% of all girls named Ciara (13,068) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 232 | #1,555 (1979) | #3,389 |
| 1980s | 4,445 | #295 (1989) | #659 |
| 1990s | 13,068 | #187 (1995) | #229 |
| 2000s | 12,046 | #149 (2005) | #294 |
| 2010s | 3,996 | #439 (2010) | #774 |
| 2020s | 1,089 | #1,143 (2021) | #1,283 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ciara in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 2,085 of them was named Ciara, which outranked 98.0% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 285,847 of them was named Ciara, which outranked 32.5% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).