Kaia
#193 for girls in 2025, 1,618 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 1,680 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 20,909since 1955
Kaia over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaia has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #193 | 1,618 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #180 | 1,680 | — | |
| 2023 | #186 | 1,613 | — | |
| 2022 | #225 | 1,335 | — | |
| 2021 | #231 | 1,304 | — | |
| 2020 | #300 | 1,076 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #315 | 1,015 | — | |
| 2018 | #312 | 1,066 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #330 | 993 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #368 | 886 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #447 | 708 | — | |
| 2014 | #545 | 567 | — | |
| 2013 | #603 | 466 | — | |
| 2012 | #563 | 522 | — | |
| 2011 | #597 | 480 | — | |
| 2010 | #547 | 536 | — | |
| 2009 | #592 | 509 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #665 | 462 | — | |
| 2007 | #638 | 466 | — | |
| 2006 | #695 | 408 | — | |
| 2005 | #690 | 401 | — | |
| 2004 | #698 | 385 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #619 | 434 | — | |
| 2002 | #582 | 444 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #891 | 257 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #904 | 242 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,271 | 146 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,883 | 81 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,023 | 70 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,372 | 55 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,456 | 52 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,098 | 37 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,990 | 39 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,660 | 45 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,297 | 33 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,477 | 29 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,645 | 23 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,613 | 22 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,286 | 17 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,647 | 22 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,853 | 20 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,541 | 22 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,098 | 25 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,366 | 22 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,963 | 16 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,404 | 20 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,041 | 15 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,543 | 17 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
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| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 | — | |
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| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
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| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 | — | |
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| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaia! It came in at #5,828, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1955–1956, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaia is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Hawaii#6 · 1 in 75
- Alaska#87 · 1 in 232
- Delaware#92 · 1 in 274
- Washington#93 · 1 in 456
- California#94 · 1 in 561
Best ever in a state: #2 in Hawaii, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #6 | 30 | 1 in 75 |
| Alaska | #87 | 7 | 1 in 232 |
| Delaware | #92 | 8 | 1 in 274 |
| Washington | #93 | 62 | 1 in 456 |
| California | #94 | 294 | 1 in 561 |
| Rhode Island | #95 | 8 | 1 in 299 |
| New York | #125 | 118 | 1 in 659 |
| Maine | #128 | 8 | 1 in 374 |
| Minnesota | #128 | 38 | 1 in 551 |
| New Mexico | #131 | 11 | 1 in 429 |
| New Jersey | #136 | 53 | 1 in 671 |
| South Dakota | #139 | 7 | 1 in 397 |
| Florida | #140 | 124 | 1 in 686 |
| Nevada | #142 | 16 | 1 in 556 |
| Connecticut | #151 | 20 | 1 in 571 |
| North Dakota | #152 | 6 | 1 in 413 |
| Kansas | #155 | 20 | 1 in 565 |
| Arizona | #156 | 42 | 1 in 668 |
| Colorado | #157 | 32 | 1 in 676 |
| Massachusetts | #157 | 35 | 1 in 667 |
| Illinois | #161 | 58 | 1 in 768 |
| Utah | #178 | 24 | 1 in 674 |
| Virginia | #204 | 37 | 1 in 898 |
| Oklahoma | #206 | 18 | 1 in 804 |
| Oregon | #210 | 16 | 1 in 771 |
| Pennsylvania | #210 | 52 | 1 in 897 |
| Wisconsin | #234 | 22 | 1 in 929 |
| Idaho | #252 | 8 | 1 in 811 |
| Iowa | #255 | 13 | 1 in 903 |
| Tennessee | #263 | 28 | 1 in 1,127 |
| Arkansas | #267 | 11 | 1 in 947 |
| Indiana | #269 | 25 | 1 in 1,113 |
| Michigan | #269 | 32 | 1 in 1,102 |
| North Carolina | #283 | 37 | 1 in 1,201 |
| Maryland | #289 | 19 | 1 in 1,100 |
| Kentucky | #303 | 14 | 1 in 1,208 |
| Ohio | #306 | 37 | 1 in 1,269 |
| South Carolina | #310 | 16 | 1 in 1,119 |
| Texas | #313 | 113 | 1 in 1,435 |
| Georgia | #347 | 32 | 1 in 1,418 |
| Louisiana | #368 | 13 | 1 in 1,349 |
| Missouri | #392 | 15 | 1 in 1,566 |
| Alabama | #446 | 11 | 1 in 1,690 |
| Mississippi | #539 | 5 | 1 in 1,891 |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
| Montana | — | — | — |
| Nebraska | — | — | — |
| New Hampshire | — | — | — |
| Vermont | — | — | — |
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| Wyoming | — | — | — |
Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kaia
- 13 spots since 2024 (#180 → #193)
- 107 spots since 2020 (#300 → #193)
- 254 spots since 2015 (#447 → #193)
- Biggest jump: 367 spots in 2000 (#1,271 → #904)
- Biggest drop: 79 spots in 2004 (#619 → #698)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 2024 at #180 (1,680 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2000–2025
- Highest: 1 in 964 girls born in 2024 were named Kaia (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 993 girls born in 2025 (0.10%)
- 41.3% of all girls named Kaia (8,626) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 20 | #4,625 (1959) | #5,124 |
| 1960s | 44 | #4,494 (1965) | #5,387 |
| 1970s | 167 | #3,098 (1978) | #4,043 |
| 1980s | 211 | #3,477 (1989) | #3,950 |
| 1990s | 594 | #1,271 (1999) | #2,519 |
| 2000s | 4,008 | #582 (2002) | #697 |
| 2010s | 7,239 | #312 (2018) | #463 |
| 2020s | 8,626 | #180 (2024) | #219 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kaia in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 995 of them was named Kaia, which outranked 98.9% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.