Keira

Where Keira comes from

A modern feminine form of Kieran, from Irish ciar (“black, dark, little dark one”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Keira
  • Irish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1962
    First appearance
    #6,578 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Keira Knightley born
    British actress
  3. 1997
    Keira Walsh born
    English footballer
  4. 2006
    Peak, #110
    3,022 babies named Keira — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #227.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish.
Namesakes
  • Keira Knightley · British actress, born 1985
  • Keira Walsh · English footballer, born 1997
  • Keira Hewatch · Nigerian actress, singer and songwriter, born 1985
  • Keira Ramshaw · English footballer, born 1994
  • Keira Nicole · American pornographic actress, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.