Kaida
Kaida was given to 46 girls in 2025, #3,358 among girls’ names; 704 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaida by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaida?
#3,358 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaida rose from #7,431 in 2015 to #3,358 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 28.6 per million.
77 babies in 2024, the peak
Kaida peaked in 2024, when 77 babies were given it (70 girls, #2,542 among girls’ names). The 51 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 66% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,358 | 28.6 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,542 | 43.2 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,081 | 22.4 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,526 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,052 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,375 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,865 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,886 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,735 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,472 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,431 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,257 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,208 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,918 | 33.5 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,448 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,026 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,150 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,202 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,165 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,200 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,634 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,541 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,973 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,703 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaida a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 704 Americans recorded as Kaida, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 46 girls and 5 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kaida: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaida, and how old are they?
An estimated 699 Americans named Kaida and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 4 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 478 people named Kaida (460 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 474 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,954 babies since 1880, Kaida is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 93 babies (55%), 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 Kaida
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 Kaida and names like it
- Compare Kaida and KadyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaida since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Kaida.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaida alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.