Kaiya
Kaiya was given to 255 girls in 2025, #994 among girls’ names; 8,620 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,540 Americans named Kaiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaiya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaiya is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaiya?
#994 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaiya fell from #886 in 2015 to #994 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.17 to 0.16 per 1,000.
404 babies in 2002, the peak
Kaiya peaked in 2002, when 404 babies were given it (389 girls, #651 among girls’ names). The 255 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 255 | #994 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 314 | #863 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 353 | #798 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 308 | #903 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 279 | #945 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 259 | #987 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 259 | #999 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 290 | #923 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 277 | #957 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 290 | #945 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 312 | #886 | 0.17 |
| 2014 | 290 | #932 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 261 | #967 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 335 | #802 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 341 | #795 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 372 | #747 | 0.21 |
| 2009 | 358 | #793 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 379 | #775 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 353 | #814 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 312 | #856 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 346 | #768 | 0.19 |
| 2004 | 282 | #872 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 306 | #807 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 389 | #651 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 295 | #799 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 168 | #1,191 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 108 | #1,562 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 85 | #1,820 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,079 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 54 | #2,403 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,311 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,648 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,120 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,758 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,658 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,658 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,937 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,725 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,727 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,341 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,429 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,697 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,127 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,430 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,938 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,501 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,116 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaiya has been given almost only to girls: 33 boys in 48 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kaiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaiya, and how old are they?
8,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,620 Americans ever recorded as Kaiya. The median Kaiya alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 6,212 people named Kaiya (6,139 women and girls, 73 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,862 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 310 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,490 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,720 |
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 Kaiya born?
The states with the most babies named Kaiya are California, Texas and Washington, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 42 | #745 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 23 | #1,174 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 14 | #494 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #746 | 0.8× |
| New York | 12 | #1,198 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 12 | #766 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,286 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 11 | #883 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 9 | #963 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 9 | #611 | 0.9× |
Where Kaiya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaiya is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1974 it was given 3.1 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 Kaiya 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 165,298 babies since 1880, Kaiya is the fifth most given (5.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 255 of their 2,288 babies (11%), the second 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 Kaiya
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 Kaiya and names like it
- Compare Kaiya and KayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaiya peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Kaiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.