Kaia

Where Kaia comes from

Kaia hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1955
    First appearance
    #5,828 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Kaia Kanepi born
    Estonian tennis player
  3. 2001
    Kaia Gerber born
    American model and actress
  4. 2024
    Peak, #180
    1,680 babies named Kaia — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kaia Kanepi · Estonian tennis player, born 1985
  • Kaia Gerber · American model and actress, born 2001
  • Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen · Norwegian biathlete, born 1990
  • Kaia Iva · Estonian politician, 1964–2023
  • Kaia Parnaby · Australian softball player, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.