Kyrah
Feminine · “lady”
Kyrah is a modern spelling of Kira, and Kira has two respectable ancestries: a Greek word for a lady, and a Russian feminine built on the Persian name Cyrus. Neither is proven for the modern name, and both are worth having.
How old is the name Kyrah?
Kyrah first appears in US birth records in 1987 — 38 years ago. The typical Kyrah alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 2,500 people named Kyrah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kyrah most popular?
Kyrah peaked in 2001, reaching #1807 nationally. Today it ranks #3211, 1,404 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From kyria to Kyrah
The story of Kyrah
Greek kyrios and kyria were ordinary words of address before they were names, and the Christian east used them constantly. Russian took Kir and Kira from the Greek and they became established names in their own right. Meanwhile the Persian throne name behind Kyros had its own long history in the Near East. English-speaking families adopted Kira in the twentieth century, and Kyra, Kyrah and Keira are the respellings that followed.
Meaningscholars disagree
lady, or far-sighted
Greek kyria is a lady or mistress, the feminine of the word used for lord. Russian Kira is generally treated as the feminine of Kir, from Greek Kyros, itself the Greek form of the Persian royal name Kurush, whose own meaning is disputed — sun, young, and far-sighted have all been proposed.
How the name formed
- kyria
- Kira
- Kyrah
Related forms: Кира · Kyra · Ciara
Pronouncing Kyrah
KY-rah
Two syllables, first stressed. Some families say KEER-ah, following the Russian and Greek, and the spelling does not settle it.
Nicknames for Kyrah
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
- 1987
- Most girls named
- 2008114 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1807reached in 2001
- Change vs 2024
- −10.9%49 in 2025, from 55
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.
Kyrah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Кира in Russian — transliteration
- Kyra in English — spelling variant
- Ciara in Irish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, California.
Kyrahs among us
people named Kyrah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 32,801 born in 2025 was named Kyrah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kyrah
- #3211
- Kyrah on the 2025 chart
- #262
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kyrah went to 49 girls in 2025, but Kira, Kyra and Kirra and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 7 spellings went to 1,240, which makes it the 262nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,949 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 1,296 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 32,801 for Kyrah 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 Carlos test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kyrah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Carlos climbed just as high around 1975, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Carlos's path sketches the road Kyrah is walking now.
Kyrah 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
Where Kyrah is headed
Kyrah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kyrah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kyrah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two genuinely old ancestries stand behind the sound, one Greek and one Persian.
- Five letters and two syllables, easy to write and to say.
- Ky is a very short, current informal form.
- Kyra, Kira, Keira and Kyrah are four live spellings and all are said at least two ways.
- The first vowel is genuinely unsettled between KY and KEER.
- Ciara and Kiara are close enough to be confused with it on a class list.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kyrahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,500 people named Kyrah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kyrah?
- Kyrah is one of 6 recorded spellings. Kira is the more common one — 801 births in 2025 against 49 for Kyrah.
- How popular is the name Kyrah in 2025?
- Kyrah ranks #3211 among US girl names in 2025, with 49 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kyrah?
- About 1 in every 32,801 US girls born in 2025 was named Kyrah — 49 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kyrah with classmates?
- Kyrah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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