Kaya
#1,132 for girls in 2025, 206 births · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to girls 94.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2003 · 519 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,314since 1968
Kaya over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,132 | 206 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #967 | 269 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #1,024 | 247 | #5,255 | 18 |
| 2022 | #1,019 | 254 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #1,006 | 254 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #1,055 | 236 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #971 | 268 | #5,813 | 15 |
| 2018 | #1,021 | 254 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #935 | 282 | #5,788 | 15 |
| 2016 | #960 | 282 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #856 | 326 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #1,000 | 264 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #761 | 357 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #810 | 331 | #5,035 | 18 |
| 2011 | #722 | 383 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #765 | 357 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #683 | 426 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #641 | 480 | #3,486 | 31 |
| 2007 | #684 | 428 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #643 | 447 | #3,524 | 29 |
| 2005 | #640 | 435 | #4,198 | 21 |
| 2004 | #541 | 528 | #3,014 | 33 |
| 2003 | #539 | 519 | #4,426 | 18 |
| 2002 | #549 | 499 | #2,224 | 47 |
| 2001 | #612 | 410 | #1,935 | 56 |
| 2000 | #757 | 301 | #5,040 | 14 |
| 1999 | #1,054 | 192 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | #1,161 | 162 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #1,303 | 133 | #4,451 | 14 |
| 1996 | #1,446 | 113 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #1,761 | 82 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #1,972 | 71 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #1,967 | 71 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #2,239 | 59 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #2,356 | 54 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,957 | 38 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,402 | 30 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #3,306 | 29 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 | — | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,283 | 23 | — | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | — | |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaya! It came in at #6,246, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaya 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.
- Oregon#527 · 1 in 2,056
- Utah#585 · 1 in 2,695
- Colorado#677 · 1 in 3,089
- New Jersey#681 · 1 in 3,233
- Illinois#728 · 1 in 3,427
Best ever in a state: #35 in Hawaii, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | #527 | 6 | 1 in 2,056 |
| Utah | #585 | 6 | 1 in 2,695 |
| Colorado | #677 | 7 | 1 in 3,089 |
| New Jersey | #681 | 11 | 1 in 3,233 |
| Illinois | #728 | 13 | 1 in 3,427 |
| California | #735 | 43 | 1 in 3,835 |
| Washington | #761 | 8 | 1 in 3,532 |
| Virginia | #772 | 9 | 1 in 3,690 |
| Missouri | #815 | 6 | 1 in 3,914 |
| Indiana | #913 | 6 | 1 in 4,638 |
| Arizona | #956 | 6 | 1 in 4,679 |
| Michigan | #971 | 7 | 1 in 5,040 |
| Florida | #980 | 15 | 1 in 5,672 |
| New York | #1,014 | 14 | 1 in 5,554 |
| Ohio | #1,132 | 7 | 1 in 6,708 |
| North Carolina | #1,135 | 7 | 1 in 6,346 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,401 | 5 | 1 in 9,332 |
| Georgia | #1,539 | 5 | 1 in 9,075 |
| Texas | #1,768 | 13 | 1 in 12,473 |
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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 Kaya
- 165 spots since 2024 (#967 → #1,132)
- 77 spots since 2020 (#1,055 → #1,132)
- 276 spots since 2015 (#856 → #1,132)
- Biggest jump: 297 spots in 2000 (#1,054 → #757)
- Biggest drop: 239 spots in 2014 (#761 → #1,000)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2003 at #539 (519 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2000–2017
- Highest: 1 in 3,478 girls born in 2004 were named Kaya (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,802 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #539 in 2003, was only 1 in 3,521 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.4% of all girls named Kaya (4,473) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12 | #6,246 (1968) | #6,432 |
| 1970s | 93 | #3,283 (1978) | #5,989 |
| 1980s | 191 | #3,306 (1988) | #4,511 |
| 1990s | 975 | #1,054 (1999) | #1,822 |
| 2000s | 4,473 | #539 (2003) | #629 |
| 2010s | 3,104 | #722 (2011) | #880 |
| 2020s | 1,466 | #967 (2024) | #1,034 |
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.
Kaya in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 6,496 of them was named Kaya, which outranked 94.2% 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).
- #1,018Darcy248
- #1,018Emmalyn248
- #1,018Kathleen248
- #1,024Kaya247
- #1,024Elsa247
- #1,024Justice247
- #1,024Maizie247
- #1,032Abril246
- #1,032Jada246
- #1,032Kollyns246
Tied with 7 names at #1,024; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 95,032 of them was named Kaya, which outranked 63.0% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,075Zehaan19
- #5,075Zekai19
- #5,075Zoravar19
- #5,255Kaya18
- #5,255Adyn18
- #5,255Ahmaud18
- #5,255Ahzir18
- #5,470Aadhiran17
- #5,470Agasthya17
- #5,470Ahanu17
Tied with 214 names at #5,255; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.