Kia
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
Given to girls 97.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1983 · 272 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,613since 1956
Kia over time
Rank among girls' names. Kia 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | — | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,625 | 23 | — | |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,253 | 26 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,568 | 31 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 | — | |
| 2008 | #4,360 | 35 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 30 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,316 | 49 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #2,902 | 56 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #2,808 | 57 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,465 | 66 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #1,866 | 95 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #1,700 | 106 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #1,402 | 132 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,231 | 153 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #972 | 209 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #1,004 | 193 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #875 | 226 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #898 | 211 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #858 | 229 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #647 | 344 | #4,447 | 13 |
| 1992 | #813 | 247 | — | |
| 1991 | #808 | 253 | — | |
| 1990 | #859 | 229 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #897 | 205 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #1,048 | 153 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #866 | 196 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #690 | 264 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #772 | 219 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #832 | 188 | — | |
| 1983 | #634 | 272 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #660 | 270 | — | |
| 1981 | #666 | 263 | — | |
| 1980 | #740 | 224 | — | |
| 1979 | #841 | 185 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #670 | 237 | — | |
| 1977 | #714 | 217 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #794 | 177 | — | |
| 1975 | #761 | 186 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #762 | 183 | — | |
| 1973 | #808 | 162 | — | |
| 1972 | #837 | 156 | — | |
| 1971 | #848 | 161 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,108 | 106 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,453 | 65 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,491 | 58 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,848 | 40 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,600 | 49 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,154 | 30 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,348 | 27 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,176 | 16 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,033 | 17 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,839 | 19 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 | — | |
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| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kia! It came in at #5,952, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1958, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kia is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#108 · 1 in 395
- Maryland#161 · 1 in 794
- New Jersey#343 · 1 in 2,134
- Mississippi#362 · 1 in 1,917
- Pennsylvania#377 · 1 in 2,750
Best ever in a state: #73 in District of Columbia, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #108 | 14 | 1 in 395 |
| Maryland | #161 | 23 | 1 in 794 |
| New Jersey | #343 | 17 | 1 in 2,134 |
| Mississippi | #362 | 8 | 1 in 1,917 |
| Pennsylvania | #377 | 24 | 1 in 2,750 |
| Florida | #500 | 13 | 1 in 3,386 |
| South Carolina | #505 | 5 | 1 in 3,410 |
| Georgia | #545 | 8 | 1 in 4,031 |
| Tennessee | #547 | 6 | 1 in 4,644 |
| North Carolina | #553 | 7 | 1 in 4,624 |
| Michigan | #605 | 10 | 1 in 5,755 |
| Illinois | #614 | 14 | 1 in 5,065 |
| Missouri | #642 | 5 | 1 in 6,131 |
| New York | #732 | 16 | 1 in 6,145 |
| Ohio | #803 | 7 | 1 in 9,851 |
| Texas | #1,202 | 8 | 1 in 12,924 |
| California | #1,454 | 9 | 1 in 17,037 |
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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 Kia
- 3,799 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #8,362)
- 1,733 spots since 2020 (#6,629 → #8,362)
- 749 spots since 2015 (#7,613 → #8,362)
- Biggest jump: 260 spots in 1971 (#1,108 → #848)
- Biggest drop: 259 spots in 1999 (#972 → #1,231)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1983 at #634 (272 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1971–1987
- Highest: 1 in 5,259 girls born in 1993 were named Kia (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #634 in 1983, was only 1 in 6,142 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.1% of all girls named Kia (2,294) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 25 | #3,104 (1959) | #5,047 |
| 1960s | 329 | #1,453 (1969) | #2,472 |
| 1970s | 1,770 | #670 (1978) | #814 |
| 1980s | 2,254 | #634 (1983) | #781 |
| 1990s | 2,294 | #647 (1993) | #897 |
| 2000s | 660 | #1,402 (2000) | #3,000 |
| 2010s | 209 | #4,568 (2011) | #6,259 |
| 2020s | 72 | #5,793 (2022) | #9,617 |
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.
Kia in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 6,464 of them was named Kia, which outranked 94.2% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).