Kierra

Where Kierra comes from

Kierra hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1975
    First appearance
    #9,067 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1987
    Kierra Sheard born
    American singer
  3. 1994
    Kierra Smith born
    Canadian swimmer
  4. 1995
    Peak, #316
    878 babies named Kierra — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2008
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #803.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kierra Sheard · American singer, born 1987
  • Kierra Smith · Canadian swimmer, born 1994

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.