Kaja
- #6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · girls
- 1981 · 13 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 711since 1957
Kaja over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Kaja has never cracked the top 5,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 |
| 2017 | #6,287 | 19 |
| 2016 | #6,663 | 18 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 |
| 2012 | #5,398 | 25 |
| 2011 | #6,855 | 18 |
| 2010 | #5,977 | 22 |
| 2009 | #5,537 | 25 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 |
| 2006 | #5,545 | 24 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 |
| 2000 | #5,312 | 21 |
| 1999 | #5,661 | 18 |
| 1998 | #5,583 | 18 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
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| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
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| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 |
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| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
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| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 |
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First appearance
1957
The first year at least five girls were named Kaja! It came in at #6,086, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1960, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaja is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Kaja in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kaja
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 671 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #6,838)
- 1,568 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #6,838)
- 117 spots since 2015 (#6,721 → #6,838)
Rise & fade · girls
24 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 1981 at #5,254 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 70,442
- Highest: 1 in 70,442 girls born in 2012 were named Kaja (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #5,254 in 1981, was only 1 in 128,312 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 24.6% of all girls named Kaja (175) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,086 (1957) | #6,086 |
| 1960s | 17 | #5,809 (1966) | #6,155 |
| 1970s | 21 | #5,776 (1974) | #7,239 |
| 1980s | 85 | #5,254 (1981) | #7,194 |
| 1990s | 141 | #5,549 (1990) | #6,480 |
| 2000s | 175 | #5,312 (2000) | #7,108 |
| 2010s | 175 | #5,398 (2012) | #7,007 |
| 2020s | 92 | #6,167 (2024) | #7,247 |
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.
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