Kota
Kota is given to both girls and boys: 20 girls and 87 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,024 among girls’ names and #1,831 among boys’, #3,392 among all names counting both); 1,205 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Kota and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kota by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kota?
#1,831 among boys’ names, 2025
Kota rose from #3,191 in 2015 to #1,831 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.8 to 50.9 per million.
107 babies in 2025, the peak
Kota peaked in 2025, when 107 babies were given it (87 boys, #1,831 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 74 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,024 | 87 | #1,831 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,535 | 74 | #2,050 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,749 | 88 | #1,820 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,075 | 81 | #1,927 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,288 | 65 | #2,183 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,645 | 53 | #2,451 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,954 | 50 | #2,608 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,816 | 50 | #2,563 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,092 | 43 | #2,825 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,652 | 44 | #2,746 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #17,915 | 36 | #3,191 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,882 | 32 | #3,424 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 37 | #3,029 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 19 | #4,954 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,290 | 23 | #4,294 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,549 | 20 | #4,773 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,523 | 39 | #3,023 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 25 | #4,093 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 19 | #4,910 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 21 | #4,437 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 18 | #4,742 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 17 | #4,906 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 15 | #5,168 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 19 | #4,259 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 10 | #6,734 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #11,401 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 11 | #5,668 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #8,775 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 7 | #7,600 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #8,398 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 6 | #8,329 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 6 | #8,205 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #9,198 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #8,963 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #7,105 |
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 Kota a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,205 Americans recorded as Kota, 13% are girls and 87% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kota: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kota, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,205 Americans ever recorded as Kota. The median Kota alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 889 people named Kota (141 women and girls, 748 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 679 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 38 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 875 |
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 Kota born?
The states with the most babies named Kota are Texas, California and Illinois, with 82% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #1,712 | 0.3× |
| California | 8 | #1,923 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,405 | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,184 | 0.2× |
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 Kota 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,155 babies since 1880, Kota is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 107 of their 116 babies (92%), the 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 Kota
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 Kota and names like it
- Compare Kota and CotyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKota peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kota since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kota.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kota alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.