How Many People Are Named Chiara?

5,840

people named Chiara are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 58,524 people in the US has this name

Based on 5,927 babies named Chiara in Social Security records from 1951 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,371

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,881

See the top 100

Peak Year

2025

228 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Italian
Pronunciation: KYA-ra
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Italian form of CLARA. Saint Chiara (commonly called Saint Clare in English) was a follower of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Chiara in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Chiara alive today is about 19 years old, and 80% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 27 in 2025.

Under 30 4,658
79.7%
30 to 59 1,137
19.5%
60 and over 46
0.8%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Chiara first appears in the records in 1951, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 228 babies.

Babies given the name each year, 1951 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Chiara has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,053, in 2002. In 2025 it ranked #1,066.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,066
Best rank#1,053 (2002)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,286 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Chiara alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Chiara were born in California than in any other state: about 999 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Chiara was given 3.5 times as often in New York, 3 times in New Jersey and 2.6 times in Massachusetts.

California 999
New York 808
Florida 444
New Jersey 296
Texas 240
Massachusetts 184
Pennsylvania 161
Illinois 118
Virginia 72
Arizona 62
Colorado 61
Connecticut 43
Washington 40
Michigan 37
Maryland 23
Ohio 22
North Carolina 18
Georgia 17
Minnesota 11
Utah 6
Wisconsin 5

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