Kaya — #967 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kaya

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,106 babies named Kaya between 1968 and 2024, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaya currently holds the #967 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 528 babies received it in a single year. Kaya is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 647 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 4,473 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kaya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,778 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaya in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaya in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 10,106 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.