Kaya

Where Kaya comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Kaya.

  • Vowel-ended
Kaya through the years
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #6,246 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Kaya born
    Japanese visual kei musician
  3. 1992
    Kaya Scodelario born
    British actress
  4. 2003
    Peak, #539
    519 babies named Kaya, its best rank.
  5. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,021.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Kaya Scodelario · British actress, born 1992
  • Kaya · Japanese visual kei musician, born 1979
  • Kaya Peker · Turkish basketball player, born 1980
  • Kaya Jones · American pop singer, glamour model and actress, born 1984
  • Kaya Erdem · Turkish politician and economist, born 1928

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.