Kiyo — #15376 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kiyo

The Social Security Administration has registered 107 babies named Kiyo between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kiyo currently holds the #15376 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Kiyo is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 17 additional births since 2020.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kiyo performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 54 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kiyo shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 36 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kiyo in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kiyo in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 107 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.