Kira Girl
How popular is Kira?
#385 girl name in 2025
801 baby girls were named Kira in the US in 2025, making it the 385th most popular girl name.
Kira popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #385 for girls (▲ 70 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 801 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-12% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #361 in 2015, #385 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2005 (1,391 girls) |
| Highest rank | #241 in 2005 |
| First recorded | 1938 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.6% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Kira counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Kira family of names ranked #267 for girls in 2025 (#285 the year before), with 1,231 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Kira is most popular
Babies named Kira per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Hawaii: 4.6 per 1,000 (53 girls)
- Washington: 1.1 per 1,000 (161 girls)
- Oregon: 1.1 per 1,000 (72 girls)
- Vermont: 1.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- New Hampshire: 1.0 per 1,000 (19 girls)
Kira by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,340 |
| 1940s | 5 | #5,241 |
| 1950s | 88 | #2,448 |
| 1960s | 627 | #990 |
| 1970s | 1,505 | #612 |
| 1980s | 5,462 | #273 |
| 1990s | 7,439 | #274 |
| 2000s | 12,085 | #241 |
| 2010s | 8,979 | #309 |
| 2020s | 4,634 | #384 |
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Questions
- Is Kira a boy or girl name?
- Kira is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Kira were girls.
- How popular is the name Kira?
- 801 baby girls were named Kira in the US in 2025, making it the 385th most popular girl name.
- When was Kira most popular?
- Kira peaked in 2005, when 1,391 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #241 in 2005.
- How many people are named Kira?
- 40,856 babies have been named Kira in the US since 1880. We estimate about 40,252 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 22.
- Where is Kira most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Kira was most common in Hawaii, at 4.6 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.