How Many People Are Named Kira?

40,173

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

About 1 in 8,507 people in the US has this name

Based on 40,856 babies named Kira in Social Security records from 1938 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,060

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#545

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Peak Year

2005

1,396 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.9%
Male
0.1%

Almost all of the babies given the name Kira (99.9%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Kira alive today is about 22 years old, and 73% are under 30. Half of them were between 12 and 31 in 2025.

Under 30 29,308
73%
30 to 59 10,567
26.3%
60 and over 298
0.7%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Kira first appears in the records in 1938 and was given most often in 2005, to 1,396 babies. In 2025, 801 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1938 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Kira has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #241, in 2005. In 2025 it ranked #385.

Girls
Rank in 2025#385
Best rank#241 (2005)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#267 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Kira were born in California than in any other state: about 5,754 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kira was given 5 times as often in Hawaii, 2.2 times in Alaska and 2.1 times in Utah.

California 5,754
New York 2,454
Texas 2,272
Pennsylvania 2,177
Florida 1,860
Illinois 1,429
Ohio 1,322
Washington 1,242
Michigan 1,146
New Jersey 1,124
Colorado 986
Virginia 948
Utah 916
Georgia 861
Wisconsin 847
Minnesota 830
Arizona 824
Oregon 798
North Carolina 780
Indiana 779
Massachusetts 774
Maryland 737
Missouri 607
Tennessee 602
Hawaii 466
Oklahoma 422
Louisiana 415
Iowa 414
Nevada 355
Kansas 345
Kentucky 332
Connecticut 323
Idaho 311
Alabama 310
South Carolina 298
Arkansas 251
New Mexico 208
Nebraska 187
West Virginia 156
Mississippi 147
Alaska 141
District of Columbia 112
Montana 103
New Hampshire 94
Delaware 68
Maine 62
South Dakota 56
Wyoming 47
North Dakota 45
Vermont 35
Rhode Island 15

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