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Ciara

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Ciara is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 167 births. Its best rank was 149th, in 2005.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1670.01% of girls
Peak year
20052,325 births
Best rank
#149in 2005
Since 1972
34,718people given the name
Babies named Ciara, by year of birthgirls
06251.3k1.9k2.5k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

34,718 girls have been named Ciara in the United States since 1972, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 2,325 births — 0.13% of all girls recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 1990s alone account for 38%. It has spent 35 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Ciara
1970s231
1980s4,445
1990s13,068
2000s12,046
2010s3,996
2020s932

In 2005, its biggest year

Ciara was the 149th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2005 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Abigail and Olivia. See all of 2005.

Names that rose and fell with Ciara

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.