Given name

Ciarah

Ciarah is used as a given name.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Ciarah isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Ciarah through the years

Babies since 1880
260
0 boys · 260 girls
Most popular year
2005
31 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Ciarah in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1989–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 31 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 228 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

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The ring: spellings.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Similar names

If you love Ciarah, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Modern

Ciarra

“a dark beauty”

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>99% girls

Modern

Seairah

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Cyerah

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Ceionna

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Senaiya

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Seniya

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Nykira

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Sumra

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Ciarah’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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