Kada
Kada was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,992 among girls’ names; 139 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 Kada by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kada?
#13,992 among girls’ names, 2025
Kada entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,992 in 2025.
13 babies in 2003, the peak
Kada peaked in 2003, when 13 girls were given it, #8,218 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,992 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,397 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,651 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,952 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,206 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,420 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,853 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,720 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,326 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,146 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 8 | #13,155 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,621 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,280 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,386 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,405 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,218 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,598 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,479 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,192 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,561 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kada a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kada has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kada: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kada, and how old are they?
An estimated 138 Americans named Kada and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 281 people named Kada (240 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kada rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,314 babies since 1880, Kada is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 114 babies (5.3%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Kada
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 Kada and names like it
- Compare Kada and KadyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKada peaked in 2003.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Kada.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kada alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.