Kiah
Kiah was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,549 among girls’ names; 3,578 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,510 Americans named Kiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 16 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kiah?
#3,549 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiah fell from #2,829 in 2015 to #3,549 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.7 to 26.8 per million.
162 babies in 2002, the peak
Kiah peaked in 2002, when 162 babies were given it (149 girls, #1,312 among girls’ names). The 43 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,549 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,956 | 34.6 |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,624 | 26.8 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,568 | 26.8 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,844 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,251 | 29.7 |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,802 | 35.7 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,599 | 39.4 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,885 | 33.6 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,996 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,829 | 34.7 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,952 | 32.5 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,026 | 31.3 |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,553 | 40.3 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,650 | 38.1 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,598 | 39.4 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,838 | 33.7 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,569 | 38.6 |
| 2007 | 86 | #2,270 | 44.7 |
| 2006 | 99 | #2,009 | 52.1 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,866 | 56.3 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,776 | 58.8 |
| 2003 | 104 | #1,808 | 56.9 |
| 2002 | 149 | #1,312 | 82.9 |
| 2001 | 144 | #1,337 | 80.0 |
| 2000 | 123 | #1,494 | 67.7 |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,659 | 56.4 |
| 1998 | 103 | #1,589 | 58.3 |
| 1997 | 125 | #1,371 | 71.8 |
| 1996 | 87 | #1,725 | 49.6 |
| 1995 | 103 | #1,514 | 58.6 |
| 1994 | 94 | #1,613 | 52.6 |
| 1993 | 114 | #1,421 | 63.0 |
| 1992 | 106 | #1,488 | 57.5 |
| 1991 | 126 | #1,313 | 67.2 |
| 1990 | 106 | #1,471 | 55.8 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,858 | 38.5 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,613 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,939 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,877 | 19.2 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,736 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,523 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,995 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,713 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,541 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,661 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,730 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,648 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,989 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,304 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,487 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,155 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,881 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,913 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,578 Americans recorded as Kiah, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 43 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiah, and how old are they?
3,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,578 Americans ever recorded as Kiah. The median Kiah alive today is 24 years old; half are between 16 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 3,005 people named Kiah (2,729 women and girls, 276 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,241 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 81 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 734 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kiah born?
The states with the most babies named Kiah are California, Texas and Ohio, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 245 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 110 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 98 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 90 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 62 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 60 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 47 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 42 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 40 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 38 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kiah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 29,658 babies since 1880, Kiah is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 421 babies (10%), the fifth 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 Kiah
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 Kiah and names like it
- Compare Kiah and KiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKiah peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Kiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.