Kiya
Kiya was given to 57 girls in 2025, #2,947 among girls’ names; 4,157 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,100 Americans named Kiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kiya?
#2,947 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiya fell from #2,147 in 2015 to #2,947 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 49.9 to 35.5 per million.
231 babies in 2002, the peak
Kiya peaked in 2002, when 231 girls were given it, #962 among girls’ names. The 57 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,947 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,958 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,541 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,617 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,471 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,457 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,117 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,352 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,173 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 89 | #2,180 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 89 | #2,147 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,811 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 102 | #1,946 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 124 | #1,694 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 131 | #1,642 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 128 | #1,664 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 126 | #1,737 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 164 | #1,444 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 172 | #1,393 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 167 | #1,372 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 164 | #1,338 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 199 | #1,146 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 201 | #1,096 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 231 | #962 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 211 | #1,018 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 140 | #1,348 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 106 | #1,586 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 92 | #1,723 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,462 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 78 | #1,869 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 64 | #2,105 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,330 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,248 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,704 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,905 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,711 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,123 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,752 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,380 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,373 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,254 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,240 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,878 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,099 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,621 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,099 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,489 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,980 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,117 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,459 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,452 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,863 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,038 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,989 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,300 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,501 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiya has been given almost only to girls: 23 boys in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiya, and how old are they?
4,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,157 Americans ever recorded as Kiya. The median Kiya alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 3,420 people named Kiya (3,299 women and girls, 121 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,741 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 167 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 531 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,000 |
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 Kiya born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,308 | 0.5× |
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 Kiya 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, Kiya is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 57 of their 421 babies (14%), again the third 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 Kiya
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 Kiya and names like it
- Compare Kiya and KiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKiya peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Kiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.