Kya — #1083 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kya

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,185 babies named Kya between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kya currently holds the #1083 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 381 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 2,629 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 402 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Kya in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kya 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 6,185 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.