Khoa — #5104 US boys' name
794 babies named Khoa in U.S. Social Security records since 1976, with the highest year being 1985. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 64% of names given to boys today.
26% of everyone ever named Khoa was born in this single decade.
29 babies were named Khoa in 1985 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Khoa
The Social Security Administration has registered 794 babies named Khoa between 1976 and 2024, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Khoa currently holds the #5104 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 29 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Khoa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 203 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Khoa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 192 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Khoa in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Khoa 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 794 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.
Khoa at a glance
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Current rank
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Khoa popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1976
- Peak year (1985)
- 29
- Annual births at peak — across 49 years of records
Currently ranks #5104 among boys.
794 total births across 49 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1985 with 29 births in a single year.
Khoa popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 2024 (Khoa as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Khoa accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Khoa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 203 births that decade — 26% of Khoa's all-time total
Khoa decade highlights
- Peak decade 203 births
- Runner-up 182 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Khoa's strongest decade
203 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 26% of all-time use.
Khoa by state
Where Khoa concentrates geographically — total births since 1976
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 192 | 24.2% |
| #2 | Texas | | 41 | 5.2% |
| #3 | Virginia | | 5 | 0.6% |
192 of 794 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 24.2% of nationwide
- Texas 5.2% of nationwide
- Virginia 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 24.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration 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, 1976–2024 (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.