Kha
Kha was last recorded in 2014, when 8 babies were given it; 93 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,239, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 2003, the peak
Kha peaked in 2003, when 9 boys were given it, #7,565 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #9,239 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,321 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,662 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,565 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,964 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,324 | 3.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,500 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,176 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,829 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,669 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 | #7,091 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,885 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,330 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 93 Americans recorded as Kha, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kha, and how old are they?
An estimated 90 Americans named Kha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,326 people named Kha (376 women and girls, 950 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 91 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kha rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kha
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.