Girls' name · since 1993
Khaya
Khaya has 249 recorded births since 1993 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2014 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #17,635 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #13,787 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 249
- born since 1993
- 2000s
- peak decade
Khaya currently ranks #13787 among girls' names in America, with 249 babies recorded since 1993.
Khaya has 249 recorded births among girls since 1993, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #13787 as of the latest data, more common than 20% of girls, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1993 to 2025.
- #17,635 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #13,787 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 249 born since 1993
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Khaya ranks #17,635 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,787 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 249 born since 1993, peaking in the 2000s.
- #17,635 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #13,787 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 249
- born since 1993
- 2000s
- peak decade
Khaya's 249 recorded births place it above 75.6% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Khaya compares
249 41st percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Khaya's all-time total is 34% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Khaya | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 249 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 21 | 21 | 19,840 |
Khaya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Khaya splits its recorded history at 2009: 49% of all births land in the more recent half, 51% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2010 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2014 peak of 21 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Khaya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1993–2025
- Peak year (2014)
- 21
- Annual births at peak, across 33 years of records
Khaya by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (97 births, 39% of the file).
2000s was Khaya's strongest decade.
97 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 39% of all-time use.
Khaya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
39 births
- 2000s
2000s
97 births
- 2010s
2010s
83 births
- 2020s 30
2020s
30 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 97 births (39% of all-time use).
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- Khaya's decade-level peak was the 2000s (97 total births); usage has since declined to 30 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Khaya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2014)
Similar record span (~32 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1993–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Khaya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.