Name: Kira
Gender: Unisex (Male and Female)
Usage: Kira, of scottish-gaelic origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a unisex (male and female) name.
People having the name Kira are in general originating from Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Kira across the world, see Ciara.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Kira is: Dark, Dark lady.
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Numerology of the first name Kira: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 3. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: expressive, imaginative, sociable, jovial, positive, optimistic, artistic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Creative, Light-Hearted
Ruling planet: Jupiter
Colors: Purple, Lilac, Mauve
Gemstones: Amethyst
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The name Kira is ranked on the 1,617th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 277600 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.004% of the population. The name Kira has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Kira for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Kira is a female given name of ancient origin and multiple etymological derivations.
The girl's name Kira is pronounced /ˈkɪərə/ KEER-ə. It might be a female form of the name Kiran, pronounced /ˈkɪərən/ KEER-ən. Kiran is of Hindi and Sanskrit origin, meaning "beam of light". Besides Sanskrit, there might be other etymologies from the Egyptian, where the word Ki-Ra curiously means "like Ra" also, or the Persian. Due to the Greek interpretation of the Persian king's name Kourosh (کوروش, Kūrosh) as Κύρος (Kýros) – which was obviously modeled after the Greek word κύριος (kýrios "lord"), the female form being κυρία (kyría) – Kyra (or Kira) can also be understood as a variant of this originally Persian name of uncertain signification. Therefore it is also in use as a female form of the Greek diminutive form Cyril. Cyrus was the name of several kings of Persia, including Cyrus the Great, who conquered Babylon. He is famous in the Old Testament for freeing the captive Jews and allowing them to return to Israel.
In Russian Kira (Ки́ра) is the feminine form of the male name Kir, meaning "mistress, ruler", but can translate to "leader of the people", "one the people look to" or "beloved". Furthermore, also in Russian, Kira can be dependent from the Persian-Greek name Kyra.
Kira is one of several Anglicized forms of the Celtic name Ciara, which in Gaelic means "dark".
There is also a Japanese name, romanized as Kira, which is common in Japan, as both given name and family name. Kira kira also means "glittery, shiny" in Japanese. Also in Japanese, it was derived from the English word "killer".
Finally, "Kira" is a diminutive of the old and rare male given name Avvakir.
Variant forms include Kaira, Keera, Keira, Kiera, Kyra, Kyrah, Kyreena, Kyrha, Kyria, Kyrie, Kyrene, Kyrra and Kirra.
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