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 | — | |
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| 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 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#167 · 1 in 505
- Idaho#245 · 1 in 921
- Utah#413 · 1 in 1,798
- Nevada#429 · 1 in 1,738
- Washington#451 · 1 in 2,009
Best ever in a state: #78 in Hawaii, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #167 | 7 | 1 in 505 |
| Idaho | #245 | 8 | 1 in 921 |
| Utah | #413 | 11 | 1 in 1,798 |
| Nevada | #429 | 7 | 1 in 1,738 |
| Washington | #451 | 16 | 1 in 2,009 |
| Virginia | #481 | 16 | 1 in 2,351 |
| Maryland | #482 | 11 | 1 in 2,298 |
| Colorado | #490 | 11 | 1 in 2,227 |
| Tennessee | #508 | 13 | 1 in 2,476 |
| California | #629 | 64 | 1 in 3,583 |
| Indiana | #671 | 9 | 1 in 3,612 |
| Pennsylvania | #699 | 13 | 1 in 4,257 |
| Michigan | #700 | 11 | 1 in 4,042 |
| Florida | #702 | 22 | 1 in 3,913 |
| Louisiana | #706 | 6 | 1 in 3,371 |
| Wisconsin | #740 | 6 | 1 in 4,175 |
| North Carolina | #746 | 12 | 1 in 4,007 |
| Alabama | #800 | 5 | 1 in 4,197 |
| Massachusetts | #841 | 5 | 1 in 5,444 |
| Minnesota | #850 | 5 | 1 in 5,151 |
| Arizona | #880 | 8 | 1 in 4,562 |
| Ohio | #942 | 9 | 1 in 6,265 |
| Missouri | #954 | 5 | 1 in 5,887 |
| New York | #1,026 | 15 | 1 in 6,369 |
| Illinois | #1,057 | 10 | 1 in 6,622 |
| Texas | #1,083 | 24 | 1 in 6,988 |
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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 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 4,989 of them was named Kaiya, which outranked 96.2% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).