Kiah
- #3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births
- Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
- Given to girls 92.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 149 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,313since 1971
Kiah over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it. Not on the chart: 5 boys in 1917 (see the data table).
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,517 | 43 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #3,585 | 43 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #3,536 | 44 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #3,801 | 39 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,784 | 60 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #2,584 | 67 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,873 | 58 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,966 | 56 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #2,810 | 62 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #2,922 | 58 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,548 | 71 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,638 | 67 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #2,589 | 70 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #2,826 | 62 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #2,557 | 73 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #2,257 | 86 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #2,003 | 99 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #1,855 | 104 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #1,769 | 108 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #1,802 | 104 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #1,308 | 149 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #1,331 | 144 | #4,676 | 16 |
| 2000 | #1,491 | 123 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,654 | 100 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,587 | 103 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,368 | 125 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #1,722 | 87 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #1,514 | 103 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,608 | 94 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #1,419 | 114 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #1,486 | 106 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #1,314 | 126 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,468 | 106 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #1,851 | 71 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #2,597 | 41 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #2,915 | 33 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,845 | 33 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | — | |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | — | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #4,505 | 6 |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1971
The first year at least five girls were named Kiah! It came in at #8,324, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kiah is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Kiah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kiah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 296 spots since 2020 (#3,221 → #3,517)
Rise & fade · girls
31 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2002 at #1,308 (149 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 6 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 12,060
- Highest: 1 in 12,060 girls born in 2002 were named Kiah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,378 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
- 32.1% of all girls named Kiah (1,064) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1971
- Mostly boys until 1970, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 62 | #4,626 (1979) | #7,116 |
| 1980s | 238 | #1,851 (1989) | #5,060 |
| 1990s | 1,064 | #1,314 (1991) | #1,514 |
| 2000s | 1,052 | #1,308 (2002) | #1,920 |
| 2010s | 624 | #2,548 (2012) | #2,772 |
| 2020s | 273 | #2,930 (2024) | #3,432 |
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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