Caiya
Caiya was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,456 among girls’ names; 445 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caiya?
#8,456 among girls’ names, 2025
Caiya rose from #9,050 in 2015 to #8,456 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 7.5 per million.
25 babies in 2018, the peak
Caiya peaked in 2018, when 25 girls were given it, #5,189 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,456 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,653 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,315 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,036 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,015 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,036 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,466 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,189 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,153 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,466 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,050 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,376 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,680 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,210 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,768 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,342 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,116 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,126 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,796 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,319 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,966 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,902 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,641 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,179 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,111 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,891 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,895 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,702 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Caiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Caiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caiya, and how old are they?
An estimated 441 Americans named Caiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 316 people named Caiya (316 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 343 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Caiya?
Caiya is a less common spelling of Kaiya: SSA has recorded 445 Caiya and 8,620 Kaiya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 43,888 babies since 1880, Caiya is the sixth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 2,213 babies (<1%), again the sixth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Caiya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Caiya and names like it
- Compare Caiya and KaiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCaiya peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Caiya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Caiya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.