Kya
Kya was given to 182 girls in 2025, #1,237 among girls’ names; 6,385 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,320 Americans named Kya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kya?
#1,237 among girls’ names, 2025
Kya rose from #1,435 in 2015 to #1,237 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.11 per 1,000.
381 babies in 2004, the peak
Kya peaked in 2004, when 381 girls were given it, #706 among girls’ names. The 182 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 182 | #1,237 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 229 | #1,083 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 340 | #818 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 182 | #1,300 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 140 | #1,511 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,381 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 134 | #1,592 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,527 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 173 | #1,345 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 205 | #1,209 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 161 | #1,435 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 180 | #1,316 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 175 | #1,336 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 195 | #1,246 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 192 | #1,247 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 227 | #1,098 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 204 | #1,223 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 233 | #1,110 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 266 | #1,000 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 282 | #933 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 285 | #887 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 381 | #706 | 0.21 |
| 2003 | 299 | #823 | 0.16 |
| 2002 | 251 | #895 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 271 | #845 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 157 | #1,247 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 109 | #1,551 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,069 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,572 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,732 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,263 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,692 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,013 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,845 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,121 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,572 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,732 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,081 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,865 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,265 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,639 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,659 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,187 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,573 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,713 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,014 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,311 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,544 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,191 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,360 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,913 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,684 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kya has been given almost only to girls: 13 boys in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kya, and how old are they?
6,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,385 Americans ever recorded as Kya. The median Kya alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 4,877 people named Kya (4,790 women and girls, 87 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,148 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 61 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 422 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,390 |
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 Kya born?
The states with the most babies named Kya are Texas, California and Florida, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 24 | #1,139 | 0.7× |
| California | 15 | #1,535 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,381 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 9 | #998 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #809 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,066 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,103 | 0.8× |
| Kentucky | 7 | #618 | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 6 | #871 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,061 | 0.6× |
Where Kya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kya is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1970 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Kya 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 29,392 babies since 1880, Kya is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 182 of their 413 babies (44%), 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 Kya
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 Kya and names like it
- Compare Kya and KiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKya peaked in 2004.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kya since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Kya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.