Keira
#621 for girls in 2025, 469 births · Last seen for boys in 2009 at #9,864
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 3,022 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 33,836since 1962
Keira over time
Rank among girls' names. Keira 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 | #621 | 469 | — | |
| 2024 | #605 | 496 | — | |
| 2023 | #568 | 524 | — | |
| 2022 | #535 | 577 | — | |
| 2021 | #472 | 662 | — | |
| 2020 | #467 | 663 | — | |
| 2019 | #357 | 888 | — | |
| 2018 | #365 | 867 | — | |
| 2017 | #332 | 990 | — | |
| 2016 | #313 | 1,038 | — | |
| 2015 | #245 | 1,312 | — | |
| 2014 | #227 | 1,469 | — | |
| 2013 | #203 | 1,572 | — | |
| 2012 | #190 | 1,652 | — | |
| 2011 | #176 | 1,789 | — | |
| 2010 | #165 | 1,863 | — | |
| 2009 | #141 | 2,260 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #123 | 2,736 | — | |
| 2007 | #128 | 2,677 | — | |
| 2006 | #110 | 3,022 | — | |
| 2005 | #232 | 1,468 | — | |
| 2004 | #257 | 1,244 | — | |
| 2003 | #620 | 433 | — | |
| 2002 | #939 | 238 | — | |
| 2001 | #993 | 216 | — | |
| 2000 | #943 | 226 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,035 | 196 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,099 | 175 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,139 | 164 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,318 | 129 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,482 | 107 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,277 | 133 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,345 | 123 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,225 | 142 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,244 | 136 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,716 | 85 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,551 | 91 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,704 | 75 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,838 | 63 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,669 | 70 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,410 | 90 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,812 | 59 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,069 | 48 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,531 | 77 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,774 | 32 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,800 | 32 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,724 | 32 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,942 | 27 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,515 | 34 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,060 | 42 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,498 | 68 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,709 | 53 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,753 | 25 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,598 | 27 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,665 | 27 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,856 | 24 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,454 | 28 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,610 | 14 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 | — | |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Keira! It came in at #6,578, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Keira
- 16 spots since 2024 (#605 → #621)
- 154 spots since 2020 (#467 → #621)
- 376 spots since 2015 (#245 → #621)
- Biggest jump: 363 spots in 2004 (#620 → #257)
- Biggest drop: 110 spots in 2020 (#357 → #467)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 2006 at #110 (3,022 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2000–2025
- Highest: 1 in 629 girls born in 2006 were named Keira (0.16%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,427 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 42.9% of all girls named Keira (14,520) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 99 | #2,454 (1969) | #4,199 |
| 1970s | 359 | #1,498 (1975) | #2,432 |
| 1980s | 637 | #1,410 (1985) | #1,916 |
| 1990s | 1,390 | #1,035 (1999) | #1,288 |
| 2000s | 14,520 | #110 (2006) | #449 |
| 2010s | 13,440 | #165 (2010) | #257 |
| 2020s | 3,391 | #467 (2020) | #545 |
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.
Keira in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 8,036 of them was named Keira, which outranked 94.7% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).