Girl · Old Irish
Ciara
Say it: KEER-uh
Meaning
Feminine of Ciar, from Old Irish ciar 'dark, black, brown'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
The saint's name was Ciar; the form Ciara is largely a 20th-century creation.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 2000s
In the United States
- 33,964 babies given this name since 1972
- At its height in 2005, about 1 in 795 girls
- 186 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Ciar, Kiara, Ciera
Famous bearers
- Saint Ciar of Kilkeary
- Ciara, singer
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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