Koah
Koah is given to both girls and boys: 51 girls and 260 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,150 among girls’ names and #912 among boys’, #1,648 among all names counting both); 1,438 Americans have been recorded with it since 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Koah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 3 years old and half are between 2 and 6.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Koah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Koah?
#912 among boys’ names, 2025
Koah rose from #4,238 in 2015 to #912 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.01 to 0.15 per 1,000.
311 babies in 2025, the peak
Koah peaked in 2025, when 311 babies were given it (260 boys, #912 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 201 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,150 | 260 | #912 |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,005 | 201 | #1,084 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,319 | 197 | #1,092 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,288 | 147 | #1,298 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,720 | 76 | #1,973 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,403 | 73 | #1,972 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,923 | 62 | #2,246 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,809 | 36 | #3,205 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,087 | 41 | #2,922 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 38 | #3,094 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 24 | #4,238 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 28 | #3,736 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 16 | #5,539 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 12 | #6,847 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 16 | #5,565 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 20 | #4,771 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,495 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 13 | #6,609 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #13,139 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #10,865 |
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 Koah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,438 Americans recorded as Koah, 11% are girls and 89% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Koah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Koah, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,438 Americans ever recorded as Koah. The median Koah alive today is 3 years old; half are between 2 and 6.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 79 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,350 |
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.
Where are babies named Koah born?
The states with the most babies named Koah are Texas, Georgia and California, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 30 | #867 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 26 | #664 | 1.3× |
| California | 20 | #1,064 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #646 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,098 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #1,219 | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 11 | #439 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 10 | #835 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #813 | 0.4× |
| New York | 8 | #1,361 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Koah 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 14,734 babies since 1880, Koah is the third most given (9.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 311 of their 1,993 babies (16%), the second 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 Koah
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 Koah and names like it
- Compare Koah and KoaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKoah peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Koah since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Koah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Koah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.