Kayda
Kayda was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,313 among girls’ names; 495 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kayda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kayda?
#7,313 among girls’ names, 2025
Kayda fell from #6,347 in 2015 to #7,313 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 9.3 per million.
30 babies in 2007, the peak
Kayda peaked in 2007, when 30 girls were given it, #4,877 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,313 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,795 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,737 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,394 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,473 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,695 | 17.3 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,074 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,954 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,074 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,531 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,347 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,317 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,587 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,007 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,132 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,505 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,629 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,077 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,877 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,886 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,908 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,848 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,851 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,624 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,234 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,968 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kayda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kayda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kayda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kayda, and how old are they?
An estimated 489 Americans named Kayda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 411 people named Kayda (400 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 382 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% 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 8,232 babies since 1880, Kayda is the fifth most given (6.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 108 babies (14%), the third 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 Kayda
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 Kayda and names like it
- Compare Kayda and KadyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKayda peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kayda since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kayda.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kayda alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.