Fun Facts About the Name Keyara
- More than 1 thousand babies named Keyara: U.S. records list 1,788 babies given the name Keyara from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Keyara Mean?
Keyara is best understood as a respelling of Kiara or Kiera, not as a name with a separate origin of its own. Those parent names have more than one accepted source, so the meaning of Keyara depends on which one is intended. One tradition traces Kiara to the Irish Ciarán, a diminutive of ciar, meaning "dark," so the sense is "little dark one" or "dark-haired." A second tradition links the same English spelling to the Italian Chiara, from Latin clarus, "clear" or "bright." The two sources are unrelated to each other despite being spelled alike in English. Because the spelling Keyara does not settle which source is meant, its meaning is best described as uncertain.
Keyara Name History & Origins
Keyara is one of several English spellings of a single heard name: Kiera, Kiara, Kiarra, Kyara, and Keyara. Writing the first sound as Key- is a phonetic choice, and the variety of spellings reflects a name passed along by sound rather than through one fixed written form.
As a spelling variant, Keyara's history is the history of the names it is modeled on. Kiera is an anglicized form of the Irish Ciara, the feminine of Ciarán, which comes from ciar, "dark." Kiara, spelled that way, is also used as an Italian-influenced form of Chiara, the name of Saint Clare of Assisi, founder of the Poor Clares; Chiara derives from Latin clarus, "clear, bright," and its English equivalent is Clare. Keyara does not carry a separate history apart from whichever of these names it is used alongside, and its meaning and background should be read in that light.
How Popular is the Name Keyara?
Keyara has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2001. Its best rank was #1,587 in 1999.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #11,433 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2024 | #6,032 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2023 | #7,089 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2022 | #9,353 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2021 | #7,107 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2020 | #6,496 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2019 | #6,086 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2018 | #6,144 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2017 | #4,997 | 27 | 0.0016% |
| 2016 | #6,296 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2015 | #6,352 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2014 | #5,552 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 2013 | #4,594 | 31 | 0.0018% |
| 2012 | #3,957 | 39 | 0.0022% |
| 2011 | #4,305 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 2010 | #3,032 | 56 | 0.0032% |
| 2009 | #2,741 | 66 | 0.0036% |
| 2008 | #2,524 | 75 | 0.0040% |
| 2007 | #2,236 | 88 | 0.0046% |
| 2006 | #2,363 | 80 | 0.0042% |
| 2005 | #1,930 | 100 | 0.0054% |
| 2004 | #2,234 | 79 | 0.0043% |
| 2003 | #2,195 | 79 | 0.0043% |
| 2002 | #2,130 | 79 | 0.0044% |
| 2001 | #1,690 | 107 | 0.0059% |
| 2000 | #1,697 | 104 | 0.0057% |
| 1999 | #1,587 | 106 | 0.0060% |
| 1998 | #2,634 | 52 | 0.0029% |
| 1997 | #3,195 | 37 | 0.0021% |
| 1996 | #2,697 | 46 | 0.0026% |
| 1995 | #2,668 | 46 | 0.0026% |
| 1994 | #2,486 | 51 | 0.0029% |
| 1993 | #2,967 | 40 | 0.0022% |
| 1992 | #3,308 | 34 | 0.0018% |
| 1991 | #2,911 | 40 | 0.0021% |
| 1990 | #3,398 | 32 | 0.0017% |
| 1989 | #2,899 | 38 | 0.0021% |
| 1988 | #5,175 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1987 | #9,274 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1982 | #9,797 | 6 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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