Kiah
#3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
Given to girls 92.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 149 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,313since 1971
Kiah 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,517 | 43 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #3,585 | 43 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #3,536 | 44 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #3,801 | 39 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,784 | 60 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #2,584 | 67 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,873 | 58 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,966 | 56 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #2,810 | 62 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #2,922 | 58 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,548 | 71 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,638 | 67 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #2,589 | 70 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #2,826 | 62 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #2,557 | 73 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #2,257 | 86 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #2,003 | 99 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #1,855 | 104 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #1,769 | 108 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #1,802 | 104 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #1,308 | 149 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #1,331 | 144 | #4,676 | 16 |
| 2000 | #1,491 | 123 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,654 | 100 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,587 | 103 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,368 | 125 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #1,722 | 87 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #1,514 | 103 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,608 | 94 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #1,419 | 114 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #1,486 | 106 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #1,314 | 126 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,468 | 106 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #1,851 | 71 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #2,597 | 41 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #2,915 | 33 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,845 | 33 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | — | |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | — | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #4,505 | 6 |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kiah! It came in at #8,324, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kiah
- 587 spots since 2024 (#2,930 → #3,517)
- 296 spots since 2020 (#3,221 → #3,517)
- 707 spots since 2015 (#2,810 → #3,517)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2002 at #1,308 (149 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,060 girls born in 2002 were named Kiah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,378 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.1% of all girls named Kiah (1,064) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1970, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 62 | #4,626 (1979) | #7,116 |
| 1980s | 238 | #1,851 (1989) | #5,060 |
| 1990s | 1,064 | #1,314 (1991) | #1,514 |
| 2000s | 1,052 | #1,308 (2002) | #1,920 |
| 2010s | 624 | #2,548 (2012) | #2,772 |
| 2020s | 273 | #2,930 (2024) | #3,432 |
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.
Kiah in 1993
Top girls' names in 1993
Top boys' names in 1993
More about 1993
girls
1,809,072 girls got a published name in 1993; 1 in 15,869 of them was named Kiah, which outranked 91.0% of the 15,801 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,409Malorie115
- #1,409Rosanna115
- #1,409Shanae115
- #1,419Kiah114
- #1,419Acacia114
- #1,419Diandra114
- #1,419Joshua114
- #1,426Allegra113
- #1,426Daisha113
- #1,426Jazzmin113
Tied with 6 names at #1,419; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,961,328 boys got a published name in 1993; 1 in 326,888 of them was named Kiah, which outranked 24.9% of the 10,170 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,816Zeno7
- #6,816Zeus7
- #6,816Zubair7
- #7,638Kiah6
- #7,638Abayomi6
- #7,638Abbott6
- #7,638Abdurrahman6
- #8,700Abdon5
- #8,700Abdoulaye5
- #8,700Abdullahi5
Tied with 1,061 names at #7,638; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.