Kiya
- #2,933 for girls in 2025, 57 births
- Last seen for boys in 2016 at #12,185
- Given to girls 99.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 231 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,134since 1970
Kiya over time
Rank among girls' names. Kiya has never cracked the top 900 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 | #2,933 | 57 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,517 | 70 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,604 | 67 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,460 | 72 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,441 | 71 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,085 | 52 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,334 | 78 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,160 | 88 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,168 | 89 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #2,138 | 89 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,804 | 113 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,939 | 102 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,690 | 124 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,639 | 131 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,658 | 128 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,733 | 126 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,437 | 164 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,392 | 172 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,371 | 167 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,333 | 164 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,144 | 199 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,094 | 201 | — | |
| 2002 | #960 | 231 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,014 | 211 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #1,344 | 140 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,580 | 106 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #1,721 | 92 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,450 | 53 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,864 | 78 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,101 | 64 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,323 | 56 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,241 | 58 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,687 | 45 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,886 | 40 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,695 | 43 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,104 | 34 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,283 | 19 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,025 | 19 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,942 | 27 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,083 | 25 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,407 | 20 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,894 | 15 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kiya! It came in at #7,070, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Kiya is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,210 · 1 in 17,838
Best ever in a state: #234 in District of Columbia, 2001.
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| Texas | #2,210 | 9 | 1 in 17,838 |
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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 Kiya
- 492 spots since 2020 (#2,441 → #2,933)
- Biggest jump: 54 spots in 2002
- Biggest drop: 134 spots in 2003
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2002 at #960 (231 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2002
- Highest: 1 in 7,779 girls born in 2002 were named Kiya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,198 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.9% of all girls named Kiya (1,775) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 163 | #2,942 (1978) | #4,294 |
| 1980s | 174 | #3,104 (1989) | #4,760 |
| 1990s | 635 | #1,580 (1999) | #2,255 |
| 2000s | 1,775 | #960 (2002) | #1,282 |
| 2010s | 994 | #1,639 (2011) | #2,062 |
| 2020s | 393 | #2,441 (2020) | #2,648 |
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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