Kaiya
#992 for girls in 2025, 255 births · Last seen for boys in 2005 at #10,151
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 389 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,587since 1974
Kaiya over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaiya has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #992 | 255 | — | |
| 2024 | #860 | 314 | — | |
| 2023 | #798 | 353 | — | |
| 2022 | #902 | 308 | — | |
| 2021 | #945 | 279 | — | |
| 2020 | #984 | 259 | — | |
| 2019 | #997 | 259 | — | |
| 2018 | #923 | 290 | — | |
| 2017 | #952 | 277 | — | |
| 2016 | #944 | 290 | — | |
| 2015 | #884 | 312 | — | |
| 2014 | #929 | 290 | — | |
| 2013 | #964 | 261 | — | |
| 2012 | #801 | 335 | — | |
| 2011 | #794 | 341 | — | |
| 2010 | #747 | 372 | — | |
| 2009 | #792 | 358 | — | |
| 2008 | #774 | 379 | — | |
| 2007 | #813 | 353 | — | |
| 2006 | #856 | 312 | — | |
| 2005 | #767 | 346 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #870 | 282 | — | |
| 2003 | #807 | 306 | — | |
| 2002 | #650 | 389 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | #799 | 295 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #1,188 | 168 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,560 | 108 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,819 | 85 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,070 | 68 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,398 | 54 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,615 | 30 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,108 | 37 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,686 | 21 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,633 | 29 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,623 | 29 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,893 | 25 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
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| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | — | |
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| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | — | |
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| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | — | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaiya! It came in at #7,680, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaiya is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#170 · 1 in 543
- Idaho#282 · 1 in 1,036
- Oregon#330 · 1 in 1,457
- Maryland#344 · 1 in 1,697
- Virginia#355 · 1 in 1,783
Best ever in a state: #78 in Hawaii, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #170 | 6 | 1 in 543 |
| Idaho | #282 | 6 | 1 in 1,036 |
| Oregon | #330 | 11 | 1 in 1,457 |
| Maryland | #344 | 14 | 1 in 1,697 |
| Virginia | #355 | 20 | 1 in 1,783 |
| Tennessee | #358 | 16 | 1 in 1,876 |
| Washington | #361 | 17 | 1 in 1,671 |
| Utah | #437 | 8 | 1 in 2,200 |
| Mississippi | #500 | 5 | 1 in 2,263 |
| Arizona | #553 | 12 | 1 in 2,705 |
| North Carolina | #566 | 13 | 1 in 3,342 |
| Missouri | #609 | 7 | 1 in 3,988 |
| Colorado | #647 | 7 | 1 in 3,549 |
| Michigan | #650 | 11 | 1 in 4,434 |
| New York | #652 | 24 | 1 in 4,037 |
| California | #657 | 53 | 1 in 4,202 |
| Pennsylvania | #663 | 12 | 1 in 4,605 |
| Indiana | #697 | 7 | 1 in 4,611 |
| Georgia | #704 | 11 | 1 in 4,401 |
| Florida | #706 | 17 | 1 in 4,531 |
| Ohio | #711 | 11 | 1 in 5,291 |
| New Jersey | #760 | 8 | 1 in 5,151 |
| Texas | #848 | 28 | 1 in 5,569 |
| Illinois | #970 | 10 | 1 in 6,868 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kaiya
- 132 spots since 2024 (#860 → #992)
- 8 spots since 2020 (#984 → #992)
- 108 spots since 2015 (#884 → #992)
- Biggest jump: 389 spots in 2001 (#1,188 → #799)
- Biggest drop: 163 spots in 2013 (#801 → #964)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2002 at #650 (389 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 2001–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,546 girls born in 2023 were named Kaiya (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,303 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #650 in 2002, was only 1 in 4,619 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.1% of all girls named Kaiya (3,188) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 26 | #7,173 (1975) | #7,840 |
| 1980s | 83 | #3,893 (1989) | #7,399 |
| 1990s | 495 | #1,560 (1999) | #2,980 |
| 2000s | 3,188 | #650 (2002) | #832 |
| 2010s | 3,027 | #747 (2010) | #894 |
| 2020s | 1,768 | #798 (2023) | #914 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kaiya in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 4,619 of them was named Kaiya, which outranked 96.4% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 129,434 of them was named Kaiya, which outranked 60.6% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,703Ziyon16
- #4,703Zoe16
- #4,703Zyquan16
- #4,919Kaiya15
- #4,919Akaash15
- #4,919Alaa15
- #4,919Ameya15
- #5,131Abhiram14
- #5,131Aboubacar14
- #5,131Adams14
Tied with 211 names at #4,919; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.