Kyah
Kyah was given to 59 girls in 2025, #2,876 among girls’ names; 3,141 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,110 Americans named Kyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 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 Kyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kyah?
#2,876 among girls’ names, 2025
Kyah fell from #1,926 in 2015 to #2,876 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 58.8 to 36.7 per million.
165 babies in 2002, the peak
Kyah peaked in 2002, when 165 girls were given it, #1,220 among girls’ names. The 59 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,876 | 36.7 |
| 2024 | 81 | #2,296 | 50.0 |
| 2023 | 94 | #2,071 | 58.6 |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,506 | 43.9 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,622 | 40.2 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,939 | 61.2 |
| 2019 | 120 | #1,737 | 71.5 |
| 2018 | 116 | #1,768 | 68.2 |
| 2017 | 121 | #1,745 | 70.1 |
| 2016 | 132 | #1,646 | 74.5 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 105 | #1,926 | 58.8 |
| 2014 | 101 | #1,972 | 56.5 |
| 2013 | 92 | #2,086 | 52.4 |
| 2012 | 129 | #1,660 | 73.3 |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,891 | 60.3 |
| 2010 | 99 | #2,022 | 55.7 |
| 2009 | 110 | #1,908 | 59.9 |
| 2008 | 115 | #1,858 | 60.8 |
| 2007 | 144 | #1,574 | 74.9 |
| 2006 | 124 | #1,697 | 65.2 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,751 | 61.2 |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,506 | 73.0 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,570 | 67.3 |
| 2002 | 165 | #1,220 | 91.8 |
| 2001 | 134 | #1,414 | 74.4 |
| 2000 | 76 | #2,134 | 41.8 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,800 | 27.6 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,146 | 22.6 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,847 | 24.7 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,994 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,726 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,743 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,441 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,780 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,692 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,102 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,348 | 7.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,101 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kyah has been given almost only to girls: 27 boys in 38 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyah, and how old are they?
3,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,141 Americans ever recorded as Kyah. The median Kyah alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,435 people named Kyah (2,369 women and girls, 66 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,674 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 143 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,710 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,250 |
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 Kyah born?
The states with the most babies named Kyah are California, Texas and Ohio, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 186 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 179 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 124 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 99 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 75 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 68 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 53 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 51 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 44 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 41 | not ranked | 1.0× |
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 Kyah 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 28,964 babies since 1880, Kyah is the fifth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 417 babies (14%), 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 Kyah
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 Kyah and names like it
- Compare Kyah and KiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKyah peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Kyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.