Keyera
Feminine
Keyera and its near neighbors are a good demonstration of something the record hides: several spellings of one made name can peak a decade apart, and none of them is the original.
How old is the name Keyera?
Keyera first appears in US birth records in 1986 — 39 years ago. The typical Keyera alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 900 people named Keyera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Keyera most popular?
Keyera peaked in 1997, reaching #2556 nationally. See the whole 1997 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Keyera
When a made name spreads, the spellings do not arrive together. One version appears, rises, and is at its most common while a second version is still rare; then the second peaks years later, often after the first has started falling, because parents who met the sound late wrote it down their own way. The record shows these as separate names with separate curves, which makes each look smaller and more short-lived than the sound actually was. Treat them as one name and the family turns out to have been far more common, and to have lasted far longer, than any single spelling suggests. That is true of nearly every name built this way.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source. It resembles an Italian name meaning bright and an Irish one meaning dark, which are opposites and neither of which is behind it. The pieces were chosen for sound.
Pronouncing Keyera
kee-AIR-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Kay-EER-uh is also heard.
Nicknames for Keyera
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
- 1986
- Most girls named
- 199750 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2556reached in 1997
- Change vs 2016
- +20.0%6 in 2018, from 5
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.
Keyeras among us
people named Keyera 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
Keyera 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 is read correctly on sight in spite of being rare.
- The middle stress makes it carry well.
- Every sound in it is entirely ordinary.
- Kiara, Keyara and Keyaira are all in the record and hers will be written as one of them.
- Two pronunciations are possible.
- The foreign names it resembles mean opposite things and neither is its source.
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Frequently asked
- How many Keyeras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Keyera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Keyera in 2025?
- Keyera is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Keyera with classmates?
- Keyera will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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