Kiyah
Kiyah was given to 45 girls in 2025, #3,430 among girls’ names; 2,396 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,380 Americans named Kiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kiyah?
#3,430 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiyah fell from #1,955 in 2015 to #3,430 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 57.7 to 28.0 per million.
111 babies in 2002, the peak
Kiyah peaked in 2002, when 111 girls were given it, #1,661 among girls’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,430 | 28.0 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,910 | 35.2 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,457 | 45.5 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,880 | 36.0 |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,401 | 45.7 |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,513 | 42.7 |
| 2019 | 84 | #2,211 | 50.0 |
| 2018 | 74 | #2,425 | 43.5 |
| 2017 | 97 | #2,027 | 56.2 |
| 2016 | 96 | #2,062 | 54.2 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 103 | #1,955 | 57.7 |
| 2014 | 96 | #2,042 | 53.7 |
| 2013 | 93 | #2,076 | 53.0 |
| 2012 | 104 | #1,913 | 59.1 |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,286 | 46.6 |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,069 | 54.0 |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,325 | 45.7 |
| 2008 | 81 | #2,392 | 42.8 |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,156 | 48.4 |
| 2006 | 99 | #2,010 | 52.1 |
| 2005 | 93 | #2,024 | 50.3 |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,122 | 46.3 |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,175 | 43.8 |
| 2002 | 111 | #1,661 | 61.8 |
| 2001 | 88 | #1,959 | 48.9 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,615 | 31.4 |
| 1999 | 60 | #2,429 | 33.8 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,388 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,951 | 23.6 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,385 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,151 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,495 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,377 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,556 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,285 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiyah, and how old are they?
2,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,396 Americans ever recorded as Kiyah. The median Kiyah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,717 people named Kiyah (1,703 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,019 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 83 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,020 |
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 Kiyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,125 | 0.7× |
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 Kiyah 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 28,767 babies since 1880, Kiyah is the sixth most given (8.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 413 babies (11%), the fourth 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 Kiyah
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 Kiyah and names like it
- Compare Kiyah and KiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKiyah peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Kiyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kiyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.