Kayra

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kayra: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kayra: Recorded since 2001, its highest recorded position is #1,206, and it stood at #2,278 in 2025.

1registrar recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#1206highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2002–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#4137
2004	#4598
2006	#3116
2007	#2895
2008	#3860
2009	#2148
2010	#1584
2011	#2432
2012	#3285
2013	#3160
2014	#2464
2015	#4103
2016	#2367
2017	#2925
2018	#2187
2019	#2170
2020	#2615
2021	#1692
2022	#1849
2023	#1206
2024	#1603
2025	#2278

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 21 of the 25 years from 2001 to 2025.

Official data for England and Wales, 2001–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2001
First recorded at #3134 among boys in England and Wales in 2001 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2002–2025
Highest recorded position: #1206 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 2002–2025).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #2278 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Kayra appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 22 ranked years and 234 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Boys, from 2001.

Kayra across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kayra's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#3134 (2001)	#2390 (2011)	#3256 (2025)	21 of 25	115 (2001–2025)	8 (2011)
England and Wales · Girls	#4137 (2002)	#1206 (2023)	#2278 (2025)	22 of 24	234 (2002–2025)	27 (2023)

Kayra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kayra in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	35	6 of 10	6
2010s	100	10 of 10	10
2020sbusiest	99	6 of 10	17

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 17 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kayra appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2001 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #1206 in England and Wales in 2023.

Kayra's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#2278	12	High	Verified
2025	England and Wales	male	#3256	6	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#1603	19	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1206	27	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1849	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1692	17	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2170	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2445	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2483	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2464	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3039	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2432	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2390	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1584	18	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2148	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2544	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2001 and 2025, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,206, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 27 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Kayne · #375, 29y
Kayode · #2074, 18y
Kaysan · #1078, 23y
Kaysen · #741, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alea · #1206, 23y
Hooria · #1204, 21y
Prudence · #1204, 29y
Jennah · #1209, 29y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Alea · #1206, 23y
Arayah · #1206, 18y
Hooria · #1204, 21y
Boe · #1210, 23y

Kayra and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kayra without appearing here.

Kayra moved ahead of

Tracy
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1692 and #5581.
Kirsten
In 2018 they stood at #2187 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2170 and #5591.
Belinda
In 2015 they stood at #4103 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2367 and #5785.
Jeanette
In 2015 they stood at #4103 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2367 and #5785.

Moved ahead of Kayra

Blake
In 2011 they stood at #2432 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3285 and #1893.
Aksel
In 2012 they stood at #3039 and #3416 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #2954 and #2403.
Matheo
In 2018 they stood at #2445 and #2693 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3013 and #2488.
Fiadh
In 2016 they stood at #2367 and #2757 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #2925 and #2502.

Moved the opposite way to Kayra

Abigail
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Kayra went from #4137 to #2278 while Abigail went from #22 to #171.
Aimee
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Kayra went from #4137 to #2278 while Aimee went from #65 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Kayra went from #4137 to #2278 while Aisling went from #513 to #1892.
Alex
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Kayra went from #4137 to #2278 while Alex went from #233 to #2605.

Moved the same way as Kayra

Ada
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Kayra went from #4137 to #2278 and Ada from #2301 to #40.
Alma
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Kayra went from #4137 to #2278 and Alma from #2105 to #211.
Amelia
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Kayra went from #4137 to #2278 and Amelia from #25 to #3.
Aoife
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Kayra went from #4137 to #2278 and Aoife from #344 to #192.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2001 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #1206 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kayra

Kayra at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kayra across 2 official records

Kayra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kayra appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Kayra and the names beside it

Kayra moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kayra

Moved the opposite way to Kayra

Moved the same way as Kayra

Kayra at a glance

Kayra across 2 official records

Kayra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kayra appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Kayra and the names beside it

Kayra moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kayra

Moved the opposite way to Kayra

Moved the same way as Kayra