Kyiah
Kyiah was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,529 among girls’ names; 443 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kyiah?
#10,529 among girls’ names, 2025
Kyiah fell from #5,048 in 2015 to #10,529 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 5.6 per million.
27 babies in 2015, the peak
Kyiah peaked in 2015, when 27 girls were given it, #5,048 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,529 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,935 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,999 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,839 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,665 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,699 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,532 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,385 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,594 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,070 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,048 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,600 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,947 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,335 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,847 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,992 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,950 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,243 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,263 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,060 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,127 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,047 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,931 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,277 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,490 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,302 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,902 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,731 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,976 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kyiah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kyiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 439 Americans named Kyiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 346 people named Kyiah (338 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 371 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 25,678 babies since 1880, Kyiah is the eighth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 365 babies (2.5%), the seventh 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 Kyiah
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 Kyiah and names like it
- Compare Kyiah and KiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKyiah peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kyiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Kyiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kyiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.