Kiyo
Kiyo was last recorded in 2025, when 8 babies were given it; 132 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiyo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kiyo?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,553, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1920, the peak
Kiyo peaked in 1920, when 13 girls were given it, #2,667 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 8 | #9,348 | |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,553 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 7 | #10,382 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #13,205 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #13,188 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,635 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,576 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,225 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,758 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,175 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 7 | #4,235 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,847 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,667 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,913 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,908 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,735 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,280 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,346 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kiyo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 132 Americans recorded as Kiyo, 81% are girls and 19% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kiyo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiyo, and how old are they?
An estimated 35 Americans named Kiyo 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.
The 2020 Census counted 287 people named Kiyo (229 women and girls, 58 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kiyo rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 26,517 babies since 1880, Kiyo is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 367 babies (2.2%), the seventh 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.
More about Kiyo and names like it
- Compare Kiyo and KiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sKiyo peaked in 1920.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiyo since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Kiyo.
- Names starting with KMost given first.