Kacia — girls' name
274 babies named Kacia in U.S. Social Security records since 1976, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
35% of everyone ever named Kacia was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Kacia in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kacia
The Social Security Administration has registered 274 babies named Kacia between 1976 and 2014, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kacia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kacia performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 95 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kacia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kacia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kacia 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 274 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.
Kacia at a glance
Last recorded 2014Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kacia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–1976
- Peak year (1990)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 39 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2014.
274 total births across 39 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 17 births in a single year.
Kacia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 95 births that decade — 35% of Kacia's all-time total
Kacia decade highlights
- Peak decade 95 births
- Runner-up 78 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Kacia's strongest decade
95 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% of all-time use.
Kacia by state
Where Kacia concentrates geographically — total births since 1976
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 1.8% |
5 of 274 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.8% 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, 1976–2014 (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.