Kathia
Kathia was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,483 among girls’ names; 1,486 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Kathia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 16 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kathia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kathia?
#5,483 among girls’ names, 2025
Kathia fell from #4,348 in 2015 to #5,483 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 14.3 per million.
99 babies in 1996, the peak
Kathia peaked in 1996, when 99 girls were given it, #1,578 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,483 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,280 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,280 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,090 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,835 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,969 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,704 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,942 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,530 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,286 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,348 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,602 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,399 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,474 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,299 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,855 | 34.3 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,742 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,045 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,015 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,823 | 21.0 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,338 | 24.9 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,595 | 22.3 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,260 | 24.6 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,761 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,390 | 36.7 |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,521 | 33.0 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,020 | 24.8 |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,256 | 35.7 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,460 | 30.4 |
| 1996 | 99 | #1,578 | 56.5 |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,530 | 28.4 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,945 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,164 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,366 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,394 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,162 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,938 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,452 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,166 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,225 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,906 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,051 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,975 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,704 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,650 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,632 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,606 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,475 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,071 | 6.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,729 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,130 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,858 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,847 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,920 | 4.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,242 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,436 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kathia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kathia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kathia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kathia, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,486 Americans ever recorded as Kathia. The median Kathia alive today is 24 years old; half are between 16 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 2,191 people named Kathia (2,185 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,349 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 55 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 383 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 714 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 301 |
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 Kathia born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,320 | 1.7× |
Where Kathia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kathia is most over-represented in Texas: since 1954 it was given 2.3 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 Kathia 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 372,350 babies since 1880, Kathia is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 71 babies (32%), 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 Kathia
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 Kathia and names like it
- Compare Kathia and KathyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKathia peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kathia since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Kathia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kathia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.