Given name & surname

Ciarra

“a dark beauty”

Ciarra is a variant of Ciara. One Irish interpretation is “a dark beauty.”

Meaning & origin

What it means

Ciarra is a variant of Ciara. One Irish interpretation is “a dark beauty.”

Explained through its name family

Where it comes from

Ciarra is a variant of Ciara. An origin associated with Ciara is Irish.

Explained through its name family

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Ciarra through the years

Babies since 1880
3,352
0 boys · 3,352 girls
Most popular year
1997
206 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
−43%
Cooling
050100150198020002025Highest share 19970.0
Ciarra in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1979–2025, 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 9 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 206 in 1997. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,752 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.

Ciarra’s family of names

Ciarra has a related form in Ciara.

Walk Ciarra’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

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

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 2

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

Similar names

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

Modern

Sumra

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Seairah

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Cyerah

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Shakyra

“grateful; thankful”

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Lexandra

“helper and defender of mankind”

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Deirra

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Ketara

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Sadaya

11Very rare

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

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

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