Keara

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Keara: Recorded since 1975, it reached #362 in 1985, and it was last ranked in 2016.

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
42years from first to last
#362highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2016

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1914
1997	#1958
1998	#2407
1999	#2444
2000	#2416
2001	#1359
2002	#1928
2003	#1472
2004	#1312
2005	#1500
2006	#1585
2007	#3218
2008	#3005
2010	#3533
2011	#4049
2012	#3285
2014	#5691
2016	#5785

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 16 of the 26 years from 1975 to 2000.

In 2000: #536 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2416 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1975–2016 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1975
First recorded at #455 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1975 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1975–2000
Highest recorded position: #362 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1985 (recorded 1975–2000).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2016
Most recently recorded at #5785 among girls in England and Wales, in 2016.
England and Wales · Girls

Keara appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 18 ranked years and 155 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1975.

Keara 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.

Keara'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#455 (1975)	#362 (1985)	#536 (2000)	16 of 26	64 (1975–2000)	7 (1985)
England and Wales · Girls	#1914 (1996)	#1312 (2004)	#5785 (2016)	18 of 21	155 (1996–2016)	17 (2004)

Keara 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 Keara in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	28	4 of 10	7
2000sbusiest	103	9 of 10	11
2010s	24	5 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 11 births a year.

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

Keara appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1975 to 2016. Highest recorded position: #362 in Republic of Ireland in 1985.

Keara'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
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1585	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1500	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1312	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1359	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1958	8	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1914	8	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	3	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#425	4	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#534	3	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#451	4	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#456	4	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#423	5	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#446	4	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#422	5	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	7	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#438	5	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#467	4	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#542	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#522	3	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#455	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1975 and 2016, ranked in 31 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #362, first reached in 1985.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 17 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 21 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, 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.

Davey · #362, 30y
Arda · #363, 26y
Md · #361, 29y
Rosalyn · #363, 33y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Lyn · #362, 14y
Rosalyn · #363, 33y
Ceire · #365, 18y
Corinne · #358, 44y

Keara was ranked #362 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1985. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Keara 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 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Keara without appearing here.

Keara moved ahead of

Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2416 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1359 and #3998.
Vicki Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2416 and #2167 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1359 and #2023.
Belinda Compare
In 1997 they stood at #534 and #534 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1998 that had become #425 and #498.
Cheryl Compare
In 1997 they stood at #534 and #534 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1998 that had become #425 and #498.

Moved ahead of Keara

Meabh Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3285 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #2314.
Francis Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3285 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #3214.
Shea Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3285 and #4171 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #3609.
Josefine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3285 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #4096.

Moved the opposite way to Keara

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Keara went from #1914 to #5785 while Ada went from #2683 to #164.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Keara went from #1914 to #5785 while Alma went from #2096 to #529.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Keara went from #1914 to #5785 while Alyssa went from #783 to #198.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Keara went from #1914 to #5785 while Amalie went from #2096 to #703.

Moved the same way as Keara

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Keara went from #1914 to #5785 and Abigail from #21 to #58.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Keara went from #1914 to #5785 and Aimee from #70 to #400.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Keara went from #1914 to #5785 and Aisling from #440 to #1416.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Keara went from #1914 to #5785 and Alex from #161 to #1416.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1975 to 2016. Highest recorded position: #362 in Republic of Ireland in 1985. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Keara

Keara at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Keara across 2 official records

Keara by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Keara appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Keara at a glance

Keara across 2 official records

Keara by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Keara appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Keara

Keara and the names beside it

Keara moved ahead of

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