Kimya
Kimya was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,447 among girls’ names; 757 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kimya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kimya is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kimya?
#11,447 among girls’ names, 2025
Kimya fell from #9,827 in 2015 to #11,447 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 5.0 per million.
38 babies in 1974, the peak
Kimya peaked in 1974, when 38 girls were given it, #2,155 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,447 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,820 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,741 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,575 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,538 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,847 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,741 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,500 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,640 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,158 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,827 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,731 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,581 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,016 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,293 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,884 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,636 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,656 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,999 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,496 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,690 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,946 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,323 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,271 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,071 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,345 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,164 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,944 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,962 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,678 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,416 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,167 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,128 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,546 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,424 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,589 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,440 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,053 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,162 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,538 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,089 | 6.5 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,130 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,567 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,377 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,244 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,049 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,223 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,902 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,003 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,155 | 25.9 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,710 | 17.8 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,334 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,758 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,668 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kimya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kimya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kimya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimya, and how old are they?
An estimated 737 Americans named Kimya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 16 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 609 people named Kimya (586 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 700 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 7,058 babies since 1880, Kimya is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 107 babies (7.5%), again the fourth most given.
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 Kimya
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 Kimya and names like it
- Compare Kimya and KimiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKimya peaked in 1974.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimya since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Kimya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kimya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.