Kota
- #5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births
- #1,826 for boys in 2025, 87 births
- Given to boys 86.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 88 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,047since 1985
Kota 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 | #5,917 | 20 | #1,826 | 87 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #2,042 | 74 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #1,817 | 88 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | #1,917 | 81 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | #2,173 | 65 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #2,437 | 53 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #2,582 | 50 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #2,546 | 50 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #2,798 | 43 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #2,726 | 44 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #3,149 | 36 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2013 | — | #2,998 | 37 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,862 | 19 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #4,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #4,678 | 20 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #2,991 | 39 |
| 2008 | — | #4,044 | 25 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,808 | 19 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,370 | 21 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,631 | 18 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,793 | 17 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,035 | 15 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,188 | 19 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,445 | 10 | |
| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
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| 1998 | — | #5,466 | 11 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
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| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kota! It came in at #6,523, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1992, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kota is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#1,089 · 1 in 7,451
- Illinois#1,280 · 1 in 9,910
- Texas#1,652 · 1 in 17,505
- California#1,829 · 1 in 21,934
Best ever in a state: #1,089 in Virginia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #1,089 | 5 | 1 in 7,451 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 9,910 |
| Texas | #1,652 | 10 | 1 in 17,505 |
| California | #1,829 | 8 | 1 in 21,934 |
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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 Kota
- 611 spots since 2020 (#2,437 → #1,826)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2023 at #1,817 (88 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,438 boys born in 2023 were named Kota (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,633 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 42.8% of all boys named Kota (448) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1980s | 5 | #6,523 (1985) | #6,523 |
| 1990s | 52 | #5,466 (1998) | #7,573 |
| 2000s | 188 | #2,991 (2009) | #5,165 |
| 2010s | 354 | #2,546 (2018) | #3,393 |
| 2020s | 448 | #1,817 (2023) | #2,035 |
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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