Kiara

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Kiara: Recorded since 1976, it reached #49 in 2005, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
104times a registrar ranked it
50years from first to last
#49highest recorded position
26groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#869
1997	#1015
1998	#898
1999	#383
2000	#328
2001	#372
2002	#394
2003	#408
2004	#372
2005	#345
2006	#343
2007	#355
2008	#353
2009	#370
2010	#351
2011	#355
2012	#368
2013	#390
2014	#330
2015	#395
2016	#315
2017	#270
2018	#223
2019	#204
2020	#217
2021	#235
2022	#227
2023	#175
2024	#181

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 girls in Republic of Ireland in 47 of the 50 years from 1976 to 2025.

In 2025: #91 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, #294 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1976–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1976
First recorded at #429 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1976 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1999–2025
Highest recorded position: #49 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 2005 (recorded 1999–2025).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #91 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 2025.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Kiara appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 47 years beginning in 1976, and has registered 349 births with the name.

Kiara across 5 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.

Kiara'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	#429 (1976)	#238 (2002)	#294 (2025)	47 of 50	349 (1976–2025)	15 (1989)
England and Wales · Girls	#869 (1996)	#175 (2023)	#181 (2024)	29 of 29	3,997 (1996–2024)	295 (2023)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#50 (1999)	#49 (2005)	#91 (2025)	14 of 27	1,475 (1999–2025)	141 (1999)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#330 (2012)	#227 (2024)	#227 (2024)	7 of 13	31 (2012–2024)	7 (2024)
New Zealand · Girls	#70 (2018)	#66 (2023)	#66 (2023)	6 of 6	319 (2018–2023)	60 (2022)

Kiara by decade in Republic of Ireland · 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 Kiara in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	16	3 of 10	5
1980s	68	9 of 10	8
1990s	75	10 of 10	8
2000s	77	10 of 10	8
2010s	56	9 of 10	6
2020sbusiest	57	6 of 10	10

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Kiara 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 6 regions, from 1976 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #49 in New South Wales, Australia in 2005.

Kiara'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
2024	England and Wales	female	#181	268	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#175	295	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#227	206	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#235	213	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#217	219	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#204	242	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#223	228	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#270	183	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#315	157	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#395	116	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#330	138	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#390	111	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#368	130	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#355	134	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#351	131	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#370	116	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#353	126	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#355	123	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#343	126	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#345	116	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#372	102	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#408	88	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#394	84	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#372	87	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#328	105	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#383	84	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#898	24	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1015	20	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#869	25	High	Verified
2025	New South Wales, Australia	female	#91	78	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New South Wales, Australia	female	#94	74	Insufficient	Not yet available
2018	New South Wales, Australia	female	#99	71	Insufficient	Not yet available
2009	New South Wales, Australia	female	#82	91	Insufficient	Not yet available
2008	New South Wales, Australia	female	#86	92	Insufficient	Not yet available
2007	New South Wales, Australia	female	#58	126	Insufficient	Not yet available
2006	New South Wales, Australia	female	#63	116	Insufficient	Not yet available
2005	New South Wales, Australia	female	#49	128	Insufficient	Not yet available
2004	New South Wales, Australia	female	#75	94	Insufficient	Not yet available
2003	New South Wales, Australia	female	#77	94	Insufficient	Not yet available
2002	New South Wales, Australia	female	#66	118	Insufficient	Not yet available
2001	New South Wales, Australia	female	#60	125	Insufficient	Not yet available
2000	New South Wales, Australia	female	#64	127	Insufficient	Not yet available
1999	New South Wales, Australia	female	#50	141	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	female	#66	57	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	female	#70	60	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	female	#80	52	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	female	#84	46	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	female	#75	51	High	Verified
2018	New Zealand	female	#70	53	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#227	7	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#296	5	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#353	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#330	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#294	14	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#504	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#445	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#458	8	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	12	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#444	8	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	8	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	6	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#435	10	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	7	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#475	9	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#431	9	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#394	9	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#424	7	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#370	8	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	8	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#238	15	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	4	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#284	10	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#279	9	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#425	4	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#496	4	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#333	8	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#296	10	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#309	9	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#385	6	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#290	11	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#338	8	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#380	6	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#240	15	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#407	5	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	7	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#334	8	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#348	8	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#308	10	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#529	3	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#333	9	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#542	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	5	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	7	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#429	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#230	16	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1976 and 2025, ranked in 48 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #49, first reached in 2005.

It held a top-100 place in 18 years, 11 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 295 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 48 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.

Kiana · #337, 29y
Kianna · #353, 29y
Kiarah · #1854, 21y
Kiaran · #279, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 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.

Alana · #49, 46y
Kane · #57, 45y
Billy · #39, 45y
Casey · #61, 47y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

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

Aoibheann · #50, 54y
Arran · #51, 40y
Jarrod · #51, 37y
Spencer · #47, 31y

Kiara was ranked #49 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 2005. 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.

Kiara 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 Kiara without appearing here.

Kiara moved ahead of

Denise Compare
In 1998 they stood at #898 and #664 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #383 and #1216.
Sofie Compare
In 1998 they stood at #898 and #701 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #383 and #1018.
Carol Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1015 and #897 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #898 and #1480.
Linda Compare
In 1998 they stood at #898 and #898 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #383 and #952.

Moved ahead of Kiara

Fiadh Compare
In 2007 they stood at #431 and #505 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #862 and #341.
Thea Compare
In 2012 they stood at #330 and #451 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #440 and #178.
Maja Compare
In 2023 they stood at #445 and #495 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2024 that had become #504 and #243.
Lily Compare
In 1996 they stood at #333 and #534 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1997 that had become #496 and #254.

Moved the opposite way to Kiara

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiara went from #869 to #181 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiara went from #869 to #181 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiara went from #869 to #181 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiara went from #869 to #181 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Kiara

Ella Compare
Between 1980 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kiara went from #542 to #294 and Ella from #542 to #17.
Deirdre Compare
Between 1976 and 2019 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kiara went from #429 to #621 and Deirdre from #9 to #871.
Karen Compare
Between 1976 and 2019 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kiara went from #429 to #621 and Karen from #7 to #871.
Kirsten Compare
Between 1976 and 2019 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kiara went from #429 to #621 and Kirsten from #329 to #621.

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 6 regions, from 1976 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #49 in New South Wales, Australia in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kiara

Kiara at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kiara across 5 official records

Kiara by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Kiara appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Kiara

Kiara and the names beside it

Kiara moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kiara

Moved the opposite way to Kiara

Moved the same way as Kiara

Kiara at a glance

Kiara across 5 official records

Kiara by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Kiara appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Kiara

Kiara and the names beside it

Kiara moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kiara

Moved the opposite way to Kiara

Moved the same way as Kiara