Caiya — #5700 US girls' name
433 babies named Caiya in U.S. Social Security records since 1998, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 68% of names given to girls today.
39% of everyone ever named Caiya was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Caiya in 2018 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Caiya
The Social Security Administration has registered 433 babies named Caiya between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Caiya currently holds the #5700 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Caiya performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 168 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Caiya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Caiya in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Caiya in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 433 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Caiya at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Caiya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1998
- Peak year (2018)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
Currently ranks #5700 among girls.
433 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2018 with 25 births in a single year.
Caiya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 168 births that decade — 39% of Caiya's all-time total
Caiya decade highlights
- Peak decade 168 births
- Runner-up 155 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Caiya's strongest decade
168 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Caiya by state
Where Caiya concentrates geographically — total births since 1998
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 6 | 1.4% |
6 of 433 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1998–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.