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.
- 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 318 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
28,424 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Keira, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 28,424 | 1 in 12K | 28K | Keira | 318 |
| CN China | — | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Keira | 15 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 106 | Keira | 139 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 15 | Keira | 163 |
| ES Spain | — | 565 | 1 in 89K | 565 | Keira | 25 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Keira | 2 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1 | Keira | 13 |
| IE Ireland | #966 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Keira | 35 |
| AL Albania | — | 112 | 1 in 27K | 112 | — | — |
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 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)
- Keira Kensleyb. 1972GBBritish pornographic actress
- Keira d'Amatob. 1984USAmerican runner
- Keira Knightleyb. 1985GBBritish actress
- Keira Hewatchb. 1985NGNigerian actress, singer and songwriter
- Keira Nicoleb. 1993USAmerican pornographic actress
- Keira Ramshawb. 1994GBEnglish footballer (born 1994)
- Keira Croftb. 1995USAmerican pornographic actress
- Keira Walshb. 1997GBEnglish footballer (born 1997)
- Keira Lundströmb. 2005FIFinnish singer
- Keira MaameriFRdirector and filmmaker
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 76 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 28K | #1,294 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 565 | #4,185 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 512 | #2,107 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 469 | — |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 112 | #2,665 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2009 | 106 | #64 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2010 | 51 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 46 | #1,294 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 15 | #244 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 7 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 7 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2017 | 7 | — |
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
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Keira?
- A machine transcription gives /keɪɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Keira?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keiraThe 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, “Keira” — the 966th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.