Kha — boys' name
88 babies named Kha in U.S. Social Security records since 1982, with the highest year being 2003. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
88 boys have been named Kha since 1982, peaking in the 1980s, last recorded in 2014.
- 88
- total births
- 1982–2014
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 28%
- born in that decade
28% of everyone ever named Kha was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Kha in 2003 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kha
The Social Security Administration has registered 88 babies named Kha between 1982 and 2014, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kha currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Kha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1991.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 25 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kha 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 Kha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kha 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 88 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.
Kha at a glance
Last recorded 2014Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kha popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–1982
- Peak year (2003)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2014.
88 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2003 with 9 births in a single year.
Kha popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 1991 (Kha as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Kha accounts for 5% of total recorded use across both genders.
Kha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 25 births that decade — 28% of Kha's all-time total
Kha decade highlights
- Peak decade 25 births
- Runner-up 25 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Kha's strongest decade
25 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Kha by state
Where Kha concentrates geographically — total births since 1982
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 5.7% |
5 of 88 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 5.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 5.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1982–2014 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.