How rare is the name Keara?

4,121 people in the United States have the first name Keara, about 1 in 73,291. It ranks #4,496 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KEARA

#4,496

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,121
About
1 in 73,291
This common or more
84.1%
Who bears it

Of the 4,121 people named Keara, 55.7% reported their origin as White, 27.3% as Black and 7.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Keara peaked in 1999, when 259 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19692024
Peak year
1999
Births that year
259
In 2024
10 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,767 babies have been given the name since 1969. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Keara by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,934. The largest share of babies named Keara, 58.8%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#15,8207
1970s#7,404120
1980s#3,150565
1990s#1,9341,657
2000s#2,0891,941
2010s#6,409417
2020s#16,19060
Generation X 1965–803.1%
Millennials 1981–9632.8%
Generation Z 1997–1258.8%
2013 and later5.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Keara is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Keara has been most common in Florida (2.1×), Virginia (1.7×), and New York (1.5×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.55×).

2,728 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Keara, most common first.

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