Kiara

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A female given name from Irish, variant of Keira or Ciara

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

Kiara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 2.6K
  • USUnited States1 in 7.6K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kiara itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈160,000 named Chiara, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
286 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KiaraLatin(measured from records)
КьяраCyrillic(measured from records)
ΚιάραGreek(measured from records)
კიარაGeorgian(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chiara in US United States, IT Italy, CH Switzerland.

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)

A female given name from Irish, variant of Keira or Ciara.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kiara 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 Kiara is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#439≈160,000 est.≈1 in 3791.6KChiara137
US United States—43,7481 in 7.6K44KChiara286
BR Brazil—17,9711 in 12K18KKiara83
AR Argentina#468≈17,000 est.≈1 in 2.6K757Kiara60
EC Ecuador—13,2081 in 1.3K13KKiara24
PY Paraguay#385≈3,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Kiara18
CH Switzerland#669≈2,400 est.≈1 in 3.5K179Chiara68

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INEC — civil registry names; FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung. 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)

Kiara is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Peru, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ki'Ara, Kiaera, Ki’ara, Ki-Ara, Kìara

  • Croatian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, Peru, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Киара, Kiàrà

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kiára

  • Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Peru, United States

    Also written Kiárá

  • Lao given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Italy

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Chiara, เคียร่า, เคียรา, Kîârâ, เคยรา

62 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)

Kiara 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 Swedish, Chiara är en italiensk form av → Klara som också kan skrivas Kiara. Namnet kan även vara hämtat från det iriska Ciara, en bildning till mansnamnet Ciarán ’svart’. En känd fiktiv namnbärare som kan ha inspirerat är lejonungen Kiara i Disneyfilmen Lejonkungen 2 (1998) och i tv-serien Lejonvakten (2016).

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • Finger.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In Sundanese, a kind of banyan tree; Ficus sp.

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

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)

100012001400160018002000Clare of Assisi, b. 1194Chiara Caselli, b. 1967Chiara Mastroianni, b. 1972Chiara Conti, b. 1973Chiara Zanni, b. 1978Chiara Cainero, b. 1978Chiara Appendino, b. 1984Chiara Ferragni, b. 1987Kiara Advani, b. 1991Aviva Mongillo, b. 1998

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 101 sources across 59 countries.

Official registers attesting Kiara
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202044K#982
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202218K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—18K#1,139
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202413K#155
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20205.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—4.8K#3,474
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.3K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2024656#222
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2024373—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)2015207—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)2015206—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020183#982

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 does the name Kiara mean, and where does it come from?
A female given name from Irish, variant of Keira or Ciara. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Kiara have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 165 thousand people named Chiara in Italy, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kiara most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kiara is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
What are other forms of the name Kiara?
In the etymology graph, Clara, Claire and Clare are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Kiara a male or female name?
Kiara 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.
How common is the name Kiara?
In the United States, the national register counted 43,748 people named Kiara in 2020, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.
How common is Kiara compared with other names?
In Italy, Kiara is the 439th most common given name of 102,667 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, “Kiara” — the 439th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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