Kayah — #7047 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kayah

The Social Security Administration has registered 490 babies named Kayah between 1994 and 2024, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kayah currently holds the #7047 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 30 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kayah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 201 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kayah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kayah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kayah 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 490 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.