Kinaya
Kinaya was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,180 among girls’ names; 83 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kinaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kinaya?
#16,180 among girls’ names, 2025
Kinaya entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,180 in 2025.
12 babies in 2009, the peak
Kinaya peaked in 2009, when 12 girls were given it, #9,719 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,180 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,454 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,971 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,039 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,719 | 6.5 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,257 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,958 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,918 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,220 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,885 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 9 | #10,583 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kinaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kinaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kinaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kinaya, and how old are they?
An estimated 82 Americans named Kinaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kinaya
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.