first name
KIRA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 35,464 people named Kira, 65.7% reported their origin as White, 10.1% as two or more races and 9.7% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Kira peaked in 2005, when 1,396 babies got the name.
At least 40,856 babies have been given the name since 1938. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Kira by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #542. The largest share of babies named Kira, 44.3%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
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 Kira is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kira has been most common in Hawaii (4×), Utah (2.9×), and Nevada (2.8×), and least common in Mississippi (0.3×).
38,353 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.
Either side of Kira
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kira, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Kira ranks #75,363 of 156,621, with 276 people. See Kira as a last name
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