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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 1995
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Louisiana#333 · 1 in 1,831
- Minnesota#351 · 1 in 2,270
- Georgia#425 · 1 in 2,728
- South Carolina#441 · 1 in 2,729
- Alabama#457 · 1 in 2,964
Best ever in a state: #73 in District of Columbia, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #333 | 12 | 1 in 1,831 |
| Minnesota | #351 | 11 | 1 in 2,270 |
| Georgia | #425 | 15 | 1 in 2,728 |
| South Carolina | #441 | 6 | 1 in 2,729 |
| Alabama | #457 | 7 | 1 in 2,964 |
| Wisconsin | #463 | 8 | 1 in 3,249 |
| Maryland | #465 | 8 | 1 in 3,081 |
| Washington | #575 | 8 | 1 in 3,576 |
| Virginia | #690 | 6 | 1 in 5,682 |
| Texas | #696 | 28 | 1 in 4,873 |
| Missouri | #725 | 5 | 1 in 5,918 |
| New Jersey | #761 | 7 | 1 in 6,116 |
| Michigan | #841 | 7 | 1 in 7,518 |
| Florida | #928 | 9 | 1 in 8,097 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,149 | 5 | 1 in 12,471 |
| New York | #1,209 | 10 | 1 in 10,752 |
| Illinois | #1,267 | 6 | 1 in 12,094 |
| California | #1,564 | 14 | 1 in 16,756 |
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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 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 8,334 of them was named Kia, which outranked 94.3% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 237,963 of them was named Kia, which outranked 38.0% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,928Zeferino9
- #5,928Zenon9
- #5,928Ziare9
- #6,407Kia8
- #6,407Aaronjames8
- #6,407Abdel8
- #6,407Abrar8
- #6,992Abayomi7
- #6,992Abdullahi7
- #6,992Abu7
Tied with 584 names at #6,407; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.