Cira
Feminine
Cira is the feminine of Cyrus, and Cyrus founded the Persian empire — the king who took Babylon and, according to the book of Ezra, sent the Jewish exiles home to rebuild. In Italian the name is Ciro and the c is said as a ch; in Spanish the same letters give an s. One spelling, two entirely different opening sounds, depending on which side of the Mediterranean you are on.
How old is the name Cira?
Cira first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Cira alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 500 people named Cira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cira most popular?
Cira peaked in 1945, reaching #3676 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 9,532 places below that high. See the whole 1945 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Kūruš to Cira
The story of Cira
Cyrus the Great built the Achaemenid empire in the sixth century before the common era and is remembered in the Hebrew scriptures with unusual warmth for a foreign king, because he ended the Babylonian exile. His name reached Europe through Greek historians and the Bible, and Italy and Spain made Ciro of it — a genuinely common name in Naples, where a local saint of that name is venerated. Cira is the feminine, used in both languages, and it reached American records with Italian and Spanish-speaking families in the early twentieth century.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Old Persian Kūruš has no settled derivation. Greek writers offered explanations — one connects it to a word for the sun — and modern scholarship treats all of them as guesses. The name belongs to a layer older than the records that carry it, which is common for the founders of empires and rare for anything else.
How the name formed
- Kūruš
- Kyros
- Ciro
- Cira
Related forms: Cira · Cira · Kyros · Kūruš
Pronouncing Cira
SEE-rah
Two syllables, stress on the first. In Italian the c before i is a ch, giving CHEE-rah; in Latin American Spanish it is an s, giving SEE-rah; in Spain it would be a th. Three languages, three opening sounds, one spelling — which is the practical fact about this name.
Nicknames for Cira
Moderate
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
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 200626 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3676reached in 1945
- Change vs 2024
- −40.0%6 in 2025, from 10
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.
Cira in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cira in Italian — same name
- Cira in Spanish — same name
- Kyros in Greek — related form
- Kūruš in Persian — transliteration
Ciras among us
people named Cira are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Cira
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cira
- #13208
- Cira on the 2025 chart
- #849
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cira went to 6 girls in 2025, but Cyra, Syra and Sira and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 111, which makes it the 849th most-given girls’ name of the year — 12,359 places above the chart.
- Cyra64
- Syra25
- Sira10
- Cira6
- Cyrah6
About 1 girl in 14,480 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 267,878 for Cira itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Junelle test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cira's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Junelle climbed just as high around 1929, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Junelle's path sketches the road Cira is walking now.
Cira sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Cira beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cira in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Four letters and two open syllables — it fits anywhere and survives any accent.
- It is a real name in two European languages rather than a modern coinage.
- It has a documented and consequential historical figure standing behind the men's version.
- It sits well after long or consonant-heavy surnames.
- The opening consonant is said differently in Italian, Spanish and English, so relatives may not agree.
- Kira, Sira and Sierra all sit close in sound and will be written instead.
- Its meaning cannot be given, since the Persian original was already unexplained in antiquity.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ciras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Cira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cira?
- Cira is one of 5 recorded spellings. Cyra is the more common one — 64 births in 2025 against 6 for Cira.
- How popular is the name Cira in 2025?
- Cira ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cira?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Cira — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cira with classmates?
- Cira will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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