Ceirra
Feminine · “mountain range”
Ceirra is most often Sierra, the Spanish word for a mountain range, written with the soft c and the ei of Ciara. It is two or three syllables depending on who says it, and bright either way.
How old is the name Ceirra?
Ceirra first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Ceirra alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 600 people named Ceirra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ceirra most popular?
Ceirra peaked in 1997, reaching #3105 nationally. See the whole 1997 chart.
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Where it comes from
From serra to Ceirra
The story of Ceirra
Sierra entered English with Spanish place-names, and one of them reached as far as West Africa: Portuguese sailors named the mountainous coast they found there Serra Leoa, lion mountains, and it became Sierra Leone. As a girl's name Sierra became popular in America, and its spellings multiplied. Ceirra borrows the c and ei of the Irish Ciara, so it can be read see-AIR-uh like Sierra or KEER-uh like Ciara, and families differ.
Meaningscholars disagree
mountain range, as a spelling of Sierra
Most families mean Sierra, from Spanish sierra, a saw-toothed mountain range. Some mean Ciara, the Irish name from ciar, dark. The spelling does not decide between them.
How the name formed
- serra
- sierra
- Sierra
- Ceirra
Related forms: Sierra · Ciara
Pronouncing Ceirra
see-AIR-uh
Most families say it like Sierra. Some say KEER-uh or see-EER-uh, closer to Ciara.
Nicknames for Ceirra
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1985
- Most girls named
- 199738 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3105reached in 1997
- Change vs 2009
- −28.6%5 in 2010, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Ceirra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sierra in Spanish — spelling variant
- Ciara in Irish — related form
Ceirras among us
people named Ceirra are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Ceirra sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It sounds like a familiar name.
- It is rare as a spelling.
- People will write Sierra or Ciara, and will not know which to say.
- The spelling gives no clue to its pronunciation, so she will explain it often.
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- How many Ceirras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Ceirra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ceirra in 2025?
- Ceirra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Ceirra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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