Kira Forename
8,485th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 121,889 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Russia
Highest density in:
Belarus
Kira Forename User-submission:
(Hindi) The name Kira is the feminine form of Kiran, a name of Hindi and Sanskrit origin, meaning 'beam of light'.
(Greek) The name Kira comes from Greek κύριος (kýrios), meaning 'lord'.
(Russian) Kira (Ки́ра) is the feminine form of the masculine name Kir, meaning 'mistress', 'ruler', but can translate to 'leader of the people', 'one the people look to' or 'beloved'.
Read More About This ForenameKira Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 98% | 70,467 | 1:2,047 | 169 |
| United States | 100% | 13,913 | 1:26,057 | 1,911 |
| Belarus | 96% | 5,415 | 1:1,751 | 145 |
| India | 89% | 3,052 | 1:398,060 | 34,177 |
| Kazakhstan | 96% | 2,586 | 1:6,863 | 692 |
| Germany | 100% | 2,507 | 1:38,563 | 1,278 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 2,484 | 1:12,394 | 1,435 |
| Japan | - | 1,753 | 1:73,010 | 3,677 |
| Canada | 100% | 1,323 | 1:25,044 | 2,121 |
| Denmark | - | 1,284 | 1:4,400 | 559 |
| Poland | 98% | 1,084 | 1:35,080 | 1,050 |
| Australia | - | 1,052 | 1:12,983 | 1,090 |
| Spain | 100% | 847 | 1:54,935 | 2,119 |
| England | 97% | 836 | 1:66,511 | 2,860 |
| Tajikistan | 94% | 724 | 1:11,568 | 1,116 |
| Serbia | 100% | 625 | 1:11,433 | 928 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 618 | 1:3,383 | 623 |
| Latvia | 100% | 586 | 1:3,440 | 414 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 517 | 1:58,418 | 3,242 |
| Thailand | 97% | 488 | 1:143,577 | 10,658 |
| Israel | 99% | 483 | 1:17,397 | 1,749 |
| Egypt | 100% | 455 | 1:201,980 | 7,440 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 454 | 1:37,229 | 2,835 |
| Morocco | - | 409 | 1:83,982 | 2,937 |
| Finland | 100% | 405 | 1:13,539 | 912 |
| Panama | 100% | 371 | 1:10,530 | 1,374 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 370 | 1:697,199 | 47,881 |
| Colombia | 100% | 356 | 1:134,210 | 3,819 |
| Mexico | 100% | 346 | 1:358,799 | 4,774 |
| Brazil | 100% | 284 | 1:754,353 | 21,645 |
| Algeria | 100% | 243 | 1:157,106 | 2,878 |
| South Africa | 98% | 237 | 1:230,096 | 14,217 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 234 | 1:23,388 | 561 |
| Moldova | - | 232 | 1:15,350 | 564 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 229 | 1:45,551 | 3,173 |
| Papua New Guinea | 67% | 221 | 1:36,888 | 3,633 |
| Nepal | 76% | 176 | 1:161,860 | 7,512 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 150 | 1:107,390 | 2,273 |
| Philippines | 73% | 147 | 1:721,153 | 21,649 |
| Italy | 89% | 141 | 1:433,064 | 4,825 |
| China | - | 140 | 1:9,757,541 | 59,611 |
| Ecuador | - | 140 | 1:126,621 | 2,748 |
| Estonia | 100% | 131 | 1:10,041 | 1,137 |
| Azerbaijan | 96% | 127 | 1:75,929 | 3,868 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 95% | 125 | 1:47,786 | 4,400 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 125 | 1:23,615 | 859 |
| New Zealand | - | 123 | 1:36,878 | 2,271 |
| Vietnam | 66% | 116 | 1:798,475 | 2,422 |
| Hungary | 100% | 110 | 1:89,016 | 696 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 110 | 1:4,324 | 213 |
| Cambodia | 76% | 104 | 1:156,474 | 5,643 |
| Nigeria | 79% | 102 | 1:1,740,827 | 36,324 |
| Sweden | 99% | 101 | 1:97,603 | 4,228 |
| Peru | 100% | 96 | 1:331,161 | 6,977 |
| France | 98% | 95 | 1:699,688 | 6,456 |
| Honduras | 100% | 85 | 1:103,735 | 3,293 |
| Georgia | 96% | 84 | 1:44,506 | 2,298 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 79 | 1:60,354 | 2,448 |
| Czechia | 88% | 78 | 1:136,617 | 1,325 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 78 | 1:105,301 | 3,249 |
| Chile | 100% | 76 | 1:231,674 | 3,971 |
| Ireland | 100% | 72 | 1:64,493 | 1,894 |
| Belize | 100% | 70 | 1:5,062 | 1,019 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 68 | 1:102,800 | 3,600 |
| Belgium | 100% | 64 | 1:179,532 | 4,666 |
| Malaysia | 83% | 64 | 1:475,780 | 21,121 |
| Greece | 100% | 60 | 1:182,242 | 3,865 |
| Norway | 100% | 50 | 1:102,647 | 3,293 |
| Romania | - | 50 | 1:401,040 | 11,505 |
| Wales | 100% | 49 | 1:63,149 | 1,962 |
| South Korea | - | 47 | 1:117,966 | 5,650 |
| Armenia | 97% | 46 | 1:63,451 | 2,051 |
| Qatar | 100% | 43 | 1:55,107 | 6,913 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 41 | 1:146,789 | 4,309 |
| Scotland | 64% | 39 | 1:137,189 | 2,849 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 39 | 1:183,384 | 11,968 |
| Kuwait | - | 38 | 1:99,612 | 6,886 |
| Argentina | 100% | 37 | 1:1,156,034 | 5,603 |
| Benin | 100% | 37 | 1:285,834 | 11,817 |
| Portugal | - | 37 | 1:281,375 | 5,179 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 34 | 1:2,171,400 | 51,388 |
| Jamaica | - | 32 | 1:90,101 | 4,037 |
| Ivory Coast | 90% | 31 | 1:744,385 | 24,263 |
| Zimbabwe | 92% | 31 | 1:497,542 | 22,517 |
| Niger | 92% | 29 | 1:661,517 | 12,067 |
| Croatia | 100% | 24 | 1:175,712 | 3,294 |
| Afghanistan | 89% | 23 | 1:1,418,414 | 14,886 |
| Singapore | 100% | 23 | 1:273,350 | 9,239 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 21 | 1:117,084 | 3,073 |
| Burkina Faso | 88% | 19 | 1:967,340 | 27,076 |
| Austria | 100% | 18 | 1:473,011 | 4,571 |
| Hong Kong | - | 16 | 1:484,545 | 4,322 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 16 | 1:85,089 | 6,268 |
| Ukraine | - | 16 | 1:2,843,744 | 6,272 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 15 | 1:375,171 | 5,607 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 13 | 1:43,388 | 1,811 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 12 | 1:44,096 | 2,193 |
| El Salvador | - | 11 | 1:576,526 | 4,842 |
| Greenland | - | 10 | 1:5,637 | 682 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 9 | 1:10,840,015 | 14,737 |
| Grenada | 100% | 9 | 1:12,014 | 1,427 |
| Pakistan | 75% | 9 | 1:21,595,298 | 106,286 |
| Marshall Islands | 71% | 8 | 1:6,404 | 961 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 8 | 1:72,620 | 4,185 |
| Turkey | 100% | 8 | 1:9,725,214 | 31,896 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 6 | 1:307,191 | 2,078 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 6 | 1:16,566 | 2,341 |
| Cuba | - | 6 | 1:1,917,759 | 4,898 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 6 | 1:8,188 | 985 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 6 | 1:3,961,614 | 68,952 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 6 | 1:18,291 | 1,938 |
| Uruguay | - | 6 | 1:571,273 | 6,582 |
| Albania | 100% | 4 | 1:761,642 | 22,793 |
| Bahamas | - | 4 | 1:99,842 | 1,712 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 4 | 1:15,325 | 1,588 |
| Iraq | - | 4 | 1:8,754,465 | 16,071 |
| Macau | - | 4 | 1:152,052 | 991 |
| Madagascar | - | 4 | 1:5,907,352 | 4,093 |
| Malta | - | 4 | 1:107,340 | 2,111 |
| Monaco | - | 4 | 1:9,616 | 1,312 |
| Namibia | - | 4 | 1:601,045 | 7,837 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 4 | 1:887,575 | 4,962 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 4 | 1:13,715 | 1,549 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 4 | 1:7,703,141 | 17,485 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 4 | 1:5,199,772 | 10,550 |
| Swaziland | - | 4 | 1:325,044 | 2,285 |
| Tanzania | - | 4 | 1:13,197,080 | 50,227 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 3 | 1:81,141 | 2,130 |
| Jersey | - | 3 | 1:33,327 | 1,495 |
| Kenya | - | 3 | 1:15,435,703 | 51,312 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 3 | 1:37,193 | 3,592 |
| Uganda | 100% | 3 | 1:13,652,307 | 74,436 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 2 | 1:15,625 | 1,557 |
| Brunei | - | 2 | 1:209,785 | 2,478 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 2 | 1:10,805,252 | 86,897 |
| Haiti | - | 2 | 1:5,363,476 | 32,317 |
| Iran | - | 2 | 1:39,248,434 | 50,459 |
| Mauritania | 100% | 2 | 1:2,047,620 | 19,390 |
| Mauritius | - | 2 | 1:648,892 | 8,630 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Bermuda | - | 1 | 1:64,826 | 2,481 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Botswana | - | 1 | 1:2,184,449 | 21,741 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Ghana | - | 1 | 1:26,986,216 | 13,521 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Guam | - | 1 | 1:160,646 | 3,210 |
| Guyana | - | 1 | 1:763,262 | 24,238 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Jordan | 89% | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Mali | - | 1 | 1:16,977,755 | 8,714 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 1 | 1:5,829 | 386 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 1 | 1:177,815 | 8,104 |
| San Marino | - | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| Senegal | 100% | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Kíra (69) are calculated separately.
Kira (21,940) may also be a surname.
Kira Forename Meaning
User-submitted Reference
(Hindi) The name Kira is the feminine form of Kiran, a name of Hindi and Sanskrit origin, meaning 'beam of light'.
(Greek) The name Kira comes from Greek κύριος (kýrios), meaning 'lord'.
(Russian) Kira (Ки́ра) is the feminine form of the masculine name Kir, meaning 'mistress', 'ruler', but can translate to 'leader of the people', 'one the people look to' or 'beloved'. Kira could also have arrived into Russian from the Persian-Greek name Kyra. Kira can also be the diminutive of the old and rare masculine given name Avvakir.
(Irish) Kira is one of several Anglicized forms of the Irish name Ciara, which in Irish means 'dark haired'.
(Japanese) The name Kira means 'glittery' and 'shiny'.
It also means 'strong women' in Slavonic.
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Kira Demographics
Kira Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 3,621 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Kira Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kira in the Russian language | ||
| Кира | kira | - |
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