Keira

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Royal family of Sudan's Fur people: royal name of Fur origin

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/keɪɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Keira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 14K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 40K

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)

28,424 people, 2020

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
318 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KeiraLatin(measured from records)
เกรานThai(measured from records)
ΚιραGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Royal family of Sudan's Fur people: royal name of Fur origin

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Keira 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.

Where Keira is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—28,4241 in 12K28KKeira318
CN China—≈9,600 est.≈1 in 145K—Keira15
AU Australia—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 14K106Keira139
GB United Kingdom—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 40K15Keira163
ES Spain—5651 in 89K565Keira25
LA Laos—≈220 est.≈1 in 34K—Keira2
PA Panama—≈130 est.≈1 in 30K1Keira13
IE Ireland#966≈110 est.≈1 in 46K—Keira35
AL Albania—1121 in 27K112——

28,424 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; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Keira is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Kéira

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Keïra

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Keira 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.

  • Sombría, melancólica

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In bsa, hornbill

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Senindiešu traktātos par mīlestību oroģenitālo kontaktu vispārināts nosaukums, nešķirojot vīrieša un sievietes lomu

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1960198020002020Keira Kensley, b. 1972Keira d'Amato, b. 1984Keira Knightley, b. 1985Keira Hewatch, b. 1985Keira Nicole, b. 1993Keira Ramshaw, b. 1994Keira Croft, b. 1995Keira Walsh, b. 1997Keira Lundström, b. 2005

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)

InformalHi Keira,

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 76 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Keira
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202028K#1,294
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—565#4,185
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—512#2,107
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025469—
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—112#2,665
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)2009106#64
AU AustraliaQLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present)201051—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202046#1,294
GB United KingdomNRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present)202415#244
AU AustraliaAustralian national given names (aggregated state BDM)20177—
AU AustraliaAU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD)20177—
AU AustraliaSA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present)20177—

Reference works 3

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Keira?
A machine transcription gives /keɪɹə/ (IPA) for English.
What are other forms of the name Keira?
In the etymology graph, Kiara, Kira and Ciara are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Keira a male or female name?
Keira 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.
What does the name Keira mean, and where does it come from?
Royal family of Sudan's Fur people: royal name of Fur origin Recorded by African Names.
In which country does Keira have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Keira, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keira.
Where is Keira most common?
Keira is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Keira?
In the United States, the national register counted 28,424 people named Keira in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Keira compared with other names?
In Ireland, Keira is the 966th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.

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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, “Keira” — the 966th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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