Kiara is a girl's name of English origin meaning “bright.” In 2024 it was given to 1,310 girls in the United States.
Kiara at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
English & American
Meaning
“bright”
Also spelled
Chiara
About the name Kiara
Kiara belongs to the English & American tradition. Its meaning — “bright” — is the sense carried by its English roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page. It travels in a few spellings: Chiara.
In the United States, Kiara first appears in Social Security records in 1968. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #78 in 1999, and in 2024 1,310 babies received the name — 55,726 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.