Koah
- #3,130 for girls in 2025, 51 births
- #912 for boys in 2025, 260 births
- Given to boys 88.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 260 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,279since 2005
Koah over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #3,130 | 51 | #912 | 260 |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 | #1,082 | 201 |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 | #1,088 | 197 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #1,296 | 147 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #1,964 | 76 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #1,962 | 73 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #2,228 | 62 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #3,171 | 36 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #2,891 | 41 |
| 2016 | — | #3,059 | 38 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,179 | 24 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,693 | 28 | |
| 2013 | — | #5,404 | 16 | |
| 2012 | — | #6,626 | 12 | |
| 2011 | — | #5,433 | 16 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,678 | 20 | |
| 2009 | — | #8,985 | 8 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,393 | 13 | |
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| 2006 | — | #12,055 | 5 | |
| 2005 | — | #10,151 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Koah! It came in at #10,151, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2006–2007, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Koah is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Louisiana#426 · 1 in 1,739
- Oklahoma#552 · 1 in 2,526
- South Carolina#608 · 1 in 3,028
- Pennsylvania#631 · 1 in 3,733
- Georgia#650 · 1 in 3,348
Best ever in a state: #231 in Montana, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #426 | 11 | 1 in 1,739 |
| Oklahoma | #552 | 7 | 1 in 2,526 |
| South Carolina | #608 | 7 | 1 in 3,028 |
| Pennsylvania | #631 | 14 | 1 in 3,733 |
| Georgia | #650 | 15 | 1 in 3,348 |
| Massachusetts | #690 | 6 | 1 in 4,504 |
| Missouri | #709 | 7 | 1 in 3,973 |
| Colorado | #756 | 6 | 1 in 4,475 |
| Tennessee | #777 | 8 | 1 in 4,596 |
| Arizona | #781 | 7 | 1 in 4,675 |
| Ohio | #801 | 10 | 1 in 5,253 |
| Washington | #801 | 7 | 1 in 4,685 |
| Texas | #856 | 30 | 1 in 5,835 |
| Virginia | #875 | 7 | 1 in 5,322 |
| California | #1,040 | 20 | 1 in 8,774 |
| Florida | #1,056 | 12 | 1 in 7,961 |
| Illinois | #1,133 | 6 | 1 in 8,259 |
| North Carolina | #1,144 | 6 | 1 in 8,578 |
| New York | #1,297 | 8 | 1 in 10,553 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Koah
- 1,050 spots since 2020 (#1,962 → #912)
- Biggest jump: 170 spots in 2025
- Debuted 2005
- Peaked 2025 at #912 (260 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2025
- Highest: 1 in 6,570 boys born in 2025 were named Koah (0.02%)
- 74.6% of all boys named Koah (954) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 32 | #6,393 (2008) | #9,396 |
| 2010s | 293 | #2,228 (2019) | #4,136 |
| 2020s | 954 | #912 (2025) | #1,384 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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