Kyia
Kyia was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,800 among girls’ names; 1,055 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Kyia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kyia?
#9,800 among girls’ names, 2025
Kyia fell from #5,224 in 2015 to #9,800 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 6.2 per million.
64 babies in 2002, the peak
Kyia peaked in 2002, when 64 girls were given it, #2,480 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,800 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,715 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,289 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,079 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,280 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,078 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,892 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,395 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,262 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,082 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,224 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,718 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,370 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,177 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,045 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,076 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,309 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,707 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,032 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,594 | 23.1 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,554 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,977 | 28.9 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,856 | 29.6 |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,480 | 35.6 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,940 | 27.2 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,921 | 27.0 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,347 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,262 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,853 | 16.7 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,816 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,285 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,312 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,735 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,483 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,092 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,472 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,186 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,851 | 2.8 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,759 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,686 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,652 | 5.0 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,546 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,444 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kyia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kyia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyia, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,055 Americans ever recorded as Kyia. The median Kyia alive today is 23 years old; half are between 15 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 881 people named Kyia (866 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 972 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 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 186 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 617 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 214 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,439 babies since 1880, Kyia is the sixth most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 377 babies (2.7%), again the sixth most given.
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 Kyia
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 Kyia and names like it
- Compare Kyia and KiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKyia peaked in 2002.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kyia since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Kyia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kyia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.