Fun Facts About the Name Kyrah
- More than 2 thousand babies named Kyrah: U.S. records list 2,488 babies given the name Kyrah from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Kyrah Mean?
Kyrah is an English spelling variant of the name Kyra, whose established meaning is "lady." Kyra derives from the Greek kyria (κυρία), the feminine form of kyrios, meaning "lord" or "master." In Greek, kyra (κυρά) was also a respectful title placed before a woman's name, roughly like "madam," and that title came to be used as a personal name.
A separate explanation sometimes links Kyra to the Irish name Ciara, from ciar, "dark." Ciara and Kyra sound similar and are often confused in English, but they developed in different languages, and the resemblance alone does not show a shared origin.
Kyrah Name History & Origins
The Greek title and name kyra was used as a personal name in the eastern Mediterranean in late antiquity; among Greek- and Syriac-speaking Christians, the name is recorded for ascetic women such as Cyra, a fifth-century hermitess of Beroea in Syria. Kyra continued as a given name in Greek-speaking communities and entered English usage as a written form of the same name.
Kyrah is a respelling of Kyra with a final h added. English spelling has a long habit of adding h to names, as in Sarah and Hannah, and modern respellings of names frequently use it. Kyrah has no separate origin of its own; it carries Kyra's pronunciation and meaning, and it appears alongside the related spellings Kyra and Kira.
How Popular is the Name Kyrah?
Kyrah 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 2008. Its best rank was #1,812 in 2001.
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 | #3,229 | 49 | 0.0030% |
| 2024 | #2,987 | 55 | 0.0034% |
| 2023 | #2,834 | 60 | 0.0037% |
| 2022 | #2,236 | 84 | 0.0051% |
| 2021 | #2,080 | 92 | 0.0056% |
| 2020 | #2,457 | 71 | 0.0044% |
| 2019 | #2,315 | 78 | 0.0046% |
| 2018 | #2,397 | 76 | 0.0045% |
| 2017 | #2,392 | 76 | 0.0044% |
| 2016 | #2,530 | 71 | 0.0040% |
| 2015 | #2,538 | 71 | 0.0040% |
| 2014 | #2,122 | 91 | 0.0051% |
| 2013 | #2,272 | 82 | 0.0047% |
| 2012 | #2,391 | 78 | 0.0044% |
| 2011 | #2,110 | 91 | 0.0052% |
| 2010 | #2,374 | 80 | 0.0045% |
| 2009 | #2,111 | 96 | 0.0052% |
| 2008 | #1,872 | 114 | 0.0060% |
| 2007 | #1,902 | 109 | 0.0057% |
| 2006 | #1,997 | 100 | 0.0053% |
| 2005 | #1,824 | 107 | 0.0058% |
| 2004 | #2,412 | 71 | 0.0039% |
| 2003 | #1,940 | 94 | 0.0051% |
| 2002 | #2,216 | 75 | 0.0042% |
| 2001 | #1,812 | 98 | 0.0054% |
| 2000 | #2,069 | 80 | 0.0044% |
| 1999 | #2,169 | 70 | 0.0039% |
| 1998 | #2,262 | 63 | 0.0036% |
| 1997 | #2,088 | 68 | 0.0039% |
| 1996 | #3,268 | 36 | 0.0021% |
| 1995 | #4,433 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 1994 | #6,172 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1993 | #6,857 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1992 | #6,491 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1991 | #6,110 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1989 | #7,751 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1988 | #11,096 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1987 | #10,551 | 6 | 0.0003% |
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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