Kiera

Where Kiera comes from

The dictionaries list Kiera as a given name — a female given name from the Celtic languages, variant of Keira — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Celtic
  • Persian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1963
    First appearance
    #4,896 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1981
    Kiera Cass born
    American writer of young-adult speculative fiction
  3. 1982
    Kiera Chaplin born
    model, entrepreneur and actress from Northern Ireland
  4. 2007
    Peak, #293
    1,147 babies named Kiera — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #592.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Celtic languages, variant of Keira.
  • A female given name from Persian, variant of Kira.
Namesakes
  • Kiera Cass · American writer of young-adult speculative fiction, born 1981
  • Kiera Chaplin · model, entrepreneur and actress from Northern Ireland, born 1982
  • Kiera Van Ryk · Canadian volleyball player, born 1999
  • Kiera Hogan · American professional wrestler, born 1994
  • Kiera Skeels · English footballer, born 2001

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.