Khia
Khia was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,162 among girls’ names; 871 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khia?
#16,162 among girls’ names, 2025
Khia fell from #9,819 in 2015 to #16,162 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.1 per million.
97 babies in 2002, the peak
Khia peaked in 2002, when 97 girls were given it, #1,847 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,162 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,200 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,463 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,797 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,665 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,401 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,376 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,665 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,654 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,205 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,819 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,488 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,575 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,225 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,135 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,176 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,772 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,704 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,360 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,483 | 24.2 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,532 | 16.2 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,416 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,075 | 47.1 |
| 2002 | 97 | #1,847 | 54.0 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,481 | 6.7 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,922 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,778 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,302 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,186 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,135 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,579 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,369 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,953 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,260 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,704 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,565 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,524 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,726 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,993 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,813 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,721 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,105 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,533 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,055 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,674 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,679 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,530 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,240 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Khia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khia, and how old are they?
An estimated 859 Americans named Khia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 762 people named Khia (733 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 798 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below 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 24,652 babies since 1880, Khia is the sixth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 318 babies (1.6%), the seventh 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 Khia
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 Khia and names like it
- Compare Khia and KiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKhia peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khia since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Khia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Khia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.