Ciara
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ciara is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ireland it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Irish feminine form of Ciarán/Ciaran, from Gaelic ciar 'dark'.
- IEIreland1 in 372◐
- USUnited States1 in 10K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 15K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈35K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 373 ●
- 1 in 10K ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
108K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Irish feminine form of Ciarán/Ciaran, from Gaelic ciar 'dark'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 31,823 | 82K rec. | 1 in 10K | 32K | Ciara | 373 |
| IE Ireland | #42 | 25,062 | 6.3K rec. | — | 122 | Ciara | 157 |
| GB United Kingdom | #986 | 13,586 | 8.3K rec. | — | 17 | Ciara | 176 |
| AU Australia | — | 6,931 | 5.8K rec. | — | 6 | Ciara | 136 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,458 | 1K rec. | — | 5 | Ciara | 104 |
| PH Philippines | — | 2,410 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Ciara | 69 |
| FR France | — | 1,360△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 50K | 1.4K | — | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | 757 | 709 rec. | — | listed | Ciara | 75 |
| ES Spain | — | 659△ | 278 rec. | 1 in 76K | 659 | Ciara | 42 |
| BR Brazil | — | 553△ | 89 rec. | 1 in 383K | 553 | Ciara | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | 489 | 29 rec. | — | 143 | Ciara | 21 |
| BE Belgium | — | 284 | 103 rec. | — | 7 | Ciara | 24 |
Roughly 32K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 10K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English148K72%
- Spanish18K9%
- Portuguese11K5%
- French7.6K4%
- 4K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 148,103 | 72% |
| Spanish | 17,634 | 9% |
| Portuguese | 10,604 | 5% |
| French | 7,619 | 4% |
| 3,973 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ciara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Irish, pronounced ‘kee-a-ra’: modern coinage, created as a feminine form of Ciaran.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A female given name from Irish, a new Irish feminine form of Ciaran.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ciar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Origine celtique, signifie « brune ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Irish Gaelic name; dark/black-haired.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1974 | 16 |
| 1975 | 26 |
| 1976 | 27 |
| 1977 | 36 |
| 1978 | 48 |
| 1979 | 74 |
| 1980 | 95 |
| 1981 | 122 |
| 1982 | 179 |
| 1983 | 175 |
| 1984 | 235 |
| 1985 | 549 |
| 1986 | 733 |
| 1987 | 770 |
| 1988 | 703 |
| 1989 | 884 |
| 1990 | 944 |
| 1991 | 1,050 |
| 1992 | 1,370 |
| 1993 | 1,436 |
| 1994 | 1,401 |
| 1995 | 1,586 |
| 1996 | 1,429 |
| 1997 | 1,401 |
| 1998 | 1,232 |
| 1999 | 1,219 |
| 2000 | 1,139 |
| 2001 | 1,005 |
| 2002 | 904 |
| 2003 | 791 |
| 2004 | 980 |
| 2005 | 2,325 |
| 2006 | 1,609 |
| 2007 | 1,364 |
| 2008 | 1,041 |
| 2009 | 888 |
| 2010 | 701 |
| 2011 | 556 |
| 2012 | 475 |
| 2013 | 437 |
| 2014 | 424 |
| 2015 | 372 |
| 2016 | 324 |
| 2017 | 244 |
| 2018 | 259 |
| 2019 | 204 |
| 2020 | 188 |
| 2021 | 215 |
| 2022 | 193 |
| 2023 | 170 |
| 2024 | 168 |
| 2025 | 155 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 53 years between 1972–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ciara O'Callaghanb. 1972IEIrish actress
- Ciara Jansonb. 1987GBEnglish actress
- Ciara Horneb. 1989GBformer Irish, current British racing cyclist
- Ciara Renéeb. 1990USAmerican actress
- Ciara Hannab. 1991USAmerican actress and model (born 1991)
- Ellie Rowsellb. 1992GBnot in their usual nameEnglish singer and musician
- Ciara Mageeanb. 1992IEIrish athletics competitor
- Ciara Baxendaleb. 1995GBactor
- Ciara Bravob. 1997USAmerican actress
- Ciara Riley Wilsonb. 2001USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 75 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 32K | #1,214 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.4K | #1,038 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 659 | #3,807 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 579 | #1,944 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 553 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 547 | #12,461 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 451 | #15,279 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 220 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 220 | #14,759 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 219 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 219 | #15,071 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 213 | #5,266 |
Reference works 4
- Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 570 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ciara?
- We estimate roughly 35 thousand people bear Ciara (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ciara have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 32 thousand people bear Ciara in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ciara.
- How common is Ciara compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Ciara is the 42nd most common given name of 13,994 given names recorded there.
- Is Ciara a male or female name?
- Ciara is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ciara mean?
- Recorded meaning: Irish feminine form of Ciarán/Ciaran, from Gaelic ciar 'dark'.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ciara” — the 42nd most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.