Entry № 5361 · Irish origin

Keira Keira — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KEER-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Dark / dark-haired (Keira Knightley, Pirates of the Caribbean + Atonement)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "dark / dark-haired (keira knightley, pirates of the caribbean + atonement)".

A top-150 US baby name since 2004. Keira Lewis — British footballer. Saint Ciara of Killinaboy — Irish 7th-century saint.

Dark / dark-haired.

The name in its native script.

Keira
Transliteration
Keira
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɪər.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Keira stands.

Keira does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Keiras before her.

Real people
Keira Knightley
English Oscar-nominated actress.
born 1985
Keira Walsh
English footballer.
born 1997
In fiction
Elizabeth Swann
Pirates of the Caribbean.
2003
Elizabeth Bennet
Pride & Prejudice.
2005

Names connected to Keira.

The number behind Keira.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Keira reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.