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How popular is the name Kyra?

Births per year, rank history and how many Kyras are alive today.

Kyra (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 455th in 2025 with 88 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2008, when 238 babies were given the name, the 215th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2000, with 204 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 486 in 2020 before climbing back to the 455th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. Kyra is one spelling of a name also recorded as Kyrah; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Kyra you are most likely to meet is around 18 years old. Half of all Kyras born in England and Wales are between 12 and 25, and there are at least 5,100 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 1.6% chance that at least one of them will be called Kyra.

How many babies are named Kyra each year?

Includes all spellings: Kyra, Kyrah. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Kyra spelling rank?

Where does the Kyrah spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.