Kaia
Kaia was given to 1,618 girls in 2025, #193 among girls’ names; 20,967 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,800 Americans named Kaia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaia?
#193 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaia rose from #447 in 2015 to #193 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.40 to 1.0 per 1,000.
1,680 babies in 2024, the peak
Kaia peaked in 2024, when 1,680 girls were given it, #180 among girls’ names. The 1,623 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,618 | #193 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 1,680 | #180 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,613 | #186 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 1,335 | #225 | 0.81 |
| 2021 | 1,304 | #231 | 0.79 |
| 2020 | 1,076 | #300 | 0.67 |
| 2019 | 1,015 | #315 | 0.60 |
| 2018 | 1,066 | #312 | 0.63 |
| 2017 | 993 | #331 | 0.58 |
| 2016 | 886 | #368 | 0.50 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 708 | #447 | 0.40 |
| 2014 | 567 | #545 | 0.32 |
| 2013 | 466 | #604 | 0.27 |
| 2012 | 522 | #563 | 0.30 |
| 2011 | 480 | #597 | 0.27 |
| 2010 | 536 | #547 | 0.30 |
| 2009 | 509 | #592 | 0.28 |
| 2008 | 462 | #665 | 0.24 |
| 2007 | 466 | #639 | 0.24 |
| 2006 | 408 | #695 | 0.21 |
| 2005 | 401 | #691 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 385 | #698 | 0.21 |
| 2003 | 434 | #619 | 0.24 |
| 2002 | 444 | #584 | 0.25 |
| 2001 | 257 | #893 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 242 | #904 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 146 | #1,271 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,889 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 70 | #2,029 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,385 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,466 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,129 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,009 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,164 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,674 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,313 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,511 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,518 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,557 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,687 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,949 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,657 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,356 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,699 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,224 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,906 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,592 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,146 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,423 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,036 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,436 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,111 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,020 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,620 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,730 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,208 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,235 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,178 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,640 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,170 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,952 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,807 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,123 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,259 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaia has been given almost only to girls: 58 boys in 65 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kaia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaia, and how old are they?
20,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 20,967 Americans ever recorded as Kaia. The median Kaia alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 11,567 people named Kaia (11,482 women and girls, 85 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,497 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 28 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 203 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 476 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,300 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kaia born?
The states with the most babies named Kaia are California, Florida and New York, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 359 | #79 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 133 | #136 | 1.1× |
| New York | 133 | #114 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 99 | #349 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 72 | #81 | 1.7× |
| New Jersey | 56 | #140 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 55 | #182 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 43 | #262 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 42 | #260 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 36 | #184 | 0.9× |
Where Kaia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaia is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1955 it was given 4.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kaia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 185,884 babies since 1880, Kaia is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,623 of their 2,391 babies (68%), the 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 Kaia
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 Kaia and names like it
- Compare Kaia and KayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKaia peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaia since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Kaia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.