Kira (given name)
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Kira is an ancient female given name and is actually unrelated to Ciara
, which in Gaelic means dark.
The girl's name Kyra is pronounced ˈkɪərə . It is a form of the name Kiran
, pronounced ˈkɪərən . Kiran is of Hindi and Sanskrit origin, meaning "beam of light".
From Sanskrit, it evolved to the Persian and Egyptian word Ki-Ra for "like Ra, the sun" and later to ancient Greek where its meaning became "lady" (male name Kyros (see Kyrie), meaning "lord"). A short form of kyria, κυρία, the Greek title of respect for a woman.
The word Sire for addressing royalty in western european languages is a modern variant of it. Therefore it can also be used as a female form of Cyril
. In Slavonic, it means "strong woman".
Kira (Ки́ра): Feminine form of Russian Kir, meaning "mistress, ruler." This also can translate to "Leader of the people" or "One the people look to".
Though the popularity and direct translation for the Russian forms of the name Kira are debated, there are several other Russian translations including Кира meaning "beloved".
Kira is another Russian derivative for the name Kyra, descended from Kyros, the Greek form of the Persian name Kûrush, which may mean "far sighted" or may be related to the Persian word khur "sun". The name is sometimes associated with Greek kyrios "lord". This 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.
The etymologically unrelated Japanese name, romanized as "Kira", is common in Japan, as both given name and family name. "Kira kira" also means glittery, or shiny, in Japanese.
Kyra has 11 variant forms: Kaira, Keera, Keira, Kira, Kyrah, Kyreena, Kyrha, Kyria, Kyrie, Kyrene and Kyrra.
See also Cyrah and Kiran.
Ciara
Ciara Princess Harris , known mononymously as Ciara, is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress and fashion model. Born in Austin, Texas, she traveled around the world during her childhood, only to land in Atlanta, Georgia where she met music producer, Jazze Pha...
, which in Gaelic means dark.
The girl's name Kyra is pronounced ˈkɪərə . It is a form of the name Kiran
Kiran
Kiran is a gender neutral given name. The name Kiran is pronounced keer-an. It is of Hindi and Sanskrit origin. In Sanskrit, it means "ray of light" or "beam of light" or the "first sunshine light" .Celebrities named Kiran include Kiran Chetry, a CNN News Anchor and Kiran Rathod, a Bollywood...
, pronounced ˈkɪərən . Kiran is of Hindi and Sanskrit origin, meaning "beam of light".
From Sanskrit, it evolved to the Persian and Egyptian word Ki-Ra for "like Ra, the sun" and later to ancient Greek where its meaning became "lady" (male name Kyros (see Kyrie), meaning "lord"). A short form of kyria, κυρία, the Greek title of respect for a woman.
The word Sire for addressing royalty in western european languages is a modern variant of it. Therefore it can also be used as a female form of Cyril
Cyril
Cyril is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Greek name Κύριλλος meaning "Lordly, Masterful" which in turn derives from Greek κυριος "Lord"...
. In Slavonic, it means "strong woman".
Kira (Ки́ра): Feminine form of Russian Kir, meaning "mistress, ruler." This also can translate to "Leader of the people" or "One the people look to".
Though the popularity and direct translation for the Russian forms of the name Kira are debated, there are several other Russian translations including Кира meaning "beloved".
Kira is another Russian derivative for the name Kyra, descended from Kyros, the Greek form of the Persian name Kûrush, which may mean "far sighted" or may be related to the Persian word khur "sun". The name is sometimes associated with Greek kyrios "lord". This 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.
The etymologically unrelated Japanese name, romanized as "Kira", is common in Japan, as both given name and family name. "Kira kira" also means glittery, or shiny, in Japanese.
Kyra has 11 variant forms: Kaira, Keera, Keira, Kira, Kyrah, Kyreena, Kyrha, Kyria, Kyrie, Kyrene and Kyrra.
See also Cyrah and Kiran.
People
- Keira KnightleyKeira KnightleyKeira Christina Knightley born 26 March 1985) is an English actress and model. She began acting as a child and came to international notice in 2002 after co-starring in the film Bend It Like Beckham...
(born 1985), English actress. Keira is a variant of the given name Kira - Keira Zvorykina (born 1919), Soviet chess player
- Kira BultenKira BultenKira Bulten is a former breaststroke swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There she was eliminated in the heats of the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke...
(born 1973), Dutch Olympic swimmer - Kira ChikazaneKira Chikazanewas a senior retainer under the Chōsokabe clan, during the latter Sengoku period of Feudal Japan....
(1563–1588) - Kira ClavellKira ClavellKira Clavell is a Canadian actress based out of Vancouver, British Columbia and Toronto, Ontario. She attended the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....
, Canadian actress - Kira CochraneKira CochraneKira Cochrane is a British journalist.She was born and raised in Essex. Her elder brother was killed aged 8 in a traffic accident in 1983; Cochrane's father had died of a heart attack and the family were brought up by their mother...
(born 1977), British journalist - Kira DavisKira DavisKira Davis is an American film producer. She is a former vice president of development and marketing for Alcon Entertainment.-Background:Kira Davis is a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico. She studied theatre with an emphasis in directing and graduated magna cum laude from New Mexico State University...
, American film producer - Kira HallKira HallKira Hall is associate professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, as well as director for the Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice , at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Hall received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1995 from the University of California at Berkeley, and has held...
- Kira HurleyKira HurleyKira Hurley is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the New Jersey Spartans Professional Touring Team. Hurley was born in Toronto, Ontario...
(born 1986), Canadian professional ice hockey player - Kira InugamiKira Inugamiis a female Japanese manga artist. She often participates in cosplaying events.-Works illustrated:*H2O: Footprints in the Sand artbook & manga*√After and Another artbook-External links:*...
, Japanese manga artist - Kira KenerKira KenerKira Nicole Kener is a retired American pornographic actress. She is Eurasian, as her father is of Norwegian ancestry and her mother is of Vietnamese ancestry...
(born 1974), American pornographic actress - Kira MiróKira MiróKira García-Beltrán Miró is a Spanish actress and a presenter.-As an actress:* Los abrazos rotos * Rivales * Gominolas - Susana / Menta...
(born 1980), Spanish actress and a presenter - Kira MuratovaKira MuratovaKira Muratova is a Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actress. She was born in 1934 in Soroca, Bessarabia, Romania . She was born to a Romanian mother and a Russian father. Muratova is known for her unusual and original directorial style...
(born 1934), Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter, and actress - Kira O'ReillyKira O'ReillyKira O'Reilly is a performance artist based in the UK. She graduated from Cardiff School of Art in 1998, and has participated in a number of performance art festivals throughout the UK and Europe, including at the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University 1998, the National Review of Live Art,...
- Kira PlastininaKira PlastininaKira Sergeevna Plastinina is a Russian fashion designer. She has more than 120 stores in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, China and Philippines...
(born 1992), Russian fashion designer - Kira PoutanenKira PoutanenKira Poutanen is a Finnish Nobel listed writer, translator and actress. She holds a Master of Philosophy and is currently living in France and share her life with the famous French filmmaker Julien Bréhier....
(born 1974), Finnish writer and actress - Kira ReedKira ReedKira Katherine Reed is an American actress, host and television producer.Reed studied acting at the Youth Performing Arts School in Louisville, Kentucky; and Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, graduating in 1989...
(born 1971) - Kira RoesslerKira RoesslerKira Roessler is an American bass guitarist, singer and Emmy award-winning dialogue editor. She is best known for her membership in the punk rock group Black Flag.-Biography:...
(born 1961) - Kira SalakKira SalakKira Salak is an American writer, adventurer, and journalist known for her travels in Mali and Papua New Guinea. She has written two books of nonfiction and a book of fiction based on her travels and is a contributing editor at National Geographic magazine....
(born 1971) - Kira SkovKira SkovKira Skov is Danish singer. She is best known for being the lead singer of rock band Kira & The Kindred Spirits.-Early life:...
(born 1976), Danish singer - Kira SoltanovichKira SoltanovichKira Soltanovich is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actress best known for her work on prank-oriented reality shows such as Oxygen Network's Girls Behaving Badly and TV Guide Network's Trapped by TV Guide. She is also known as the voice of a talking photo booth in a sketch on The Tonight Show...
(born 1973) - Kira Vincent-DavisKira Vincent-DavisKira Vincent-Davis is an American voice actress who works for Funimation Entertainment, ADV Films, and OkraTron 5000...
(born 1979) - Kira WilleyKira WilleyKira Willey is an award-winning American musician best known forher song Colors which is featured on a popular Dell computer laptop commercial. She is also a certified Yoga instructor and a mother.-Musical career:...
- Kira YoshinakaKira Yoshinakawas a kōke . His court title was Kōzuke no suke. He is famous as the adversary of Asano Naganori in the events of the Forty-seven Ronin...
(1641–1703) - Kira ZvorykinaKira ZvorykinaKira Alekseyevna Zvorykina is a former Soviet chess player who spent many years living in Belarus. She is a three-time winner of the Women's Soviet Championship.-Formative years:...
(born 1919)
Characters
- Kira Argounova, the protagonist in Ayn Rand's We the Living
- Kira Finster, a minor character from animated Nickelodeon TV series Rugrats and All Grown Up!
- Kira Ford (aka Yellow Dino Ranger), from Power Rangers: Dino Thunder
- Kira (Gelfling), a character in film The Dark Crystal
- Kira NerysKira NerysKira Nerys , played by Nana Visitor, is a main character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.-Backstory:Per Bajoran custom, her family name, Kira, precedes her given name, Nerys. She has two brothers , and her parents' names are Kira Taban and Kira Meru...
, on the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Kira Sakuratsuki, a character in the anime Futakoi
- Kira YamatoKira Yamatois a fictional character first introduced as the protagonist from the 2002 Japanese anime television series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED by Sunrise, part of the Gundam franchise. In the series, Kira is a first-generation Coordinator, a genetically enhanced human being born of normal humans...
, on the TV anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny - Kira Yoshikage, a character in the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Kira, the alias of protagonist Light YagamiLight Yagami, also known as is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the manga and anime series Death Note. He is an extremely intelligent, athletic, popular, but bored young man who finds the Death Note dropped by the Shinigami Ryuk by sheer chance...
in Death Note - Kyra Hart, on the TV show Reba, played by Scarlett Pomers
- Kyra, a character in the movie The Chronicles of RiddickThe Chronicles of RiddickThe Chronicles of Riddick is a 2004 American science fiction film which follows the adventures of Richard B. Riddick, as he attempts to elude capture after the events depicted in the 2000 film Pitch Black, and details his meeting with Jack and Imam, his escape from the prison planet Crematoria, and...
- Kira the Seer in the Charmed television series universe
- Kira, a character in XanaduXanadu (film)Xanadu is a 1980 romantic musical fantasy film written by Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald. The title is a reference to the poem "Kubla Khan, or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which is quoted in the film. Xanadu is the name of the Chinese province...
, played by Olivia Newton-John - Izuru Kira, a soul reaper in the anime Bleach
- Kira (Mortal Kombat)
- Kira (Iggy Arbuckle)