Ciara
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from Irish, a new Irish feminine form of Ciaran
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kiəɹɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ciara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ireland it is the 94th most common given name.
- IEIreland≈1 in 863(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 10K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 420 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 863 (inferred from the name graph)
31,895 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Irish feminine form of Ciarán/Ciaran, from Gaelic ciar 'dark'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ciara is read(measured from records)
Ciara is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English79%
A female given name from Irish, a new Irish feminine form of Ciaran.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Irish Gaelic name; dark/black-haired.
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- Spanish8.1%
first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ciar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ciara counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 31,895 | 1 in 10K | 32K | Ciara | 420 |
| CN China | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Ciara | 13 |
| IE Ireland | #94 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 863 | 122 | Ciara | 166 |
| GB United Kingdom | #988 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 17 | Ciara | 227 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Ciara | 34 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 6 | Ciara | 146 |
| GY Guyana | — | 53 | 1 in 14K | 53 | — | 2 |
31,895 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ciara is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Irish feminine form of Ciarán/Ciaran, from Gaelic ciar 'dark'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Irish, pronounced ‘kee-a-ra’: modern coinage, created as a feminine form of Ciaran.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Origine celtique, signifie « brune ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ciara O'Callaghanb. 1972IEIrish actress
- Ciara Jansonb. 1987GBEnglish actress
- Ciara Horneb. 1989GBformer Irish, current British racing cyclist
- Ciara Renéeb. 1990USAmerican actress
- Ciara Hannab. 1991USAmerican actress and model (born 1991)
- Ellie Rowsellb. 1992GBnot in their usual nameEnglish singer and musician
- Ciara Mageeanb. 1992IEIrish athletics competitor
- Ciara Baxendaleb. 1995GBactor
- Ciara Bravob. 1997USAmerican actress
- Ciara Riley Wilsonb. 2001USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 78 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 32K | #1,214 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 155 | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2019 | 122 | #49 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 72 | #1,214 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 53 | #541 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 17 | #215 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 9 | #191 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 7 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2016 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2016 | 6 | #230 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2016 | 6 | #230 |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ciara?
- A machine transcription gives /kiəɹɑ/ (IPA) for English.
- Where does the name Ciara come from?
- Irish feminine form of Ciarán/Ciaran, from Gaelic ciar 'dark'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What does the name Ciara mean?
- In English, A female given name from Irish, a new Irish feminine form of Ciaran.
- What are other forms of the name Ciara?
- In the etymology graph, Kiara, Chiara and Kira are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Ciara a male or female name?
- Ciara is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ciara have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 32 thousand people named Ciara, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ciara.
- How common is the name Ciara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 31,895 people named Ciara in 2020, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Ciara compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Ciara is the 94th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ciaraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ciara” — the 94th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.