Koa
#1,587 for girls in 2025, 132 births · #269 for boys in 2025, 1,281 births
Given to boys 90.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,281 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,702since 1978
Koa 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 | #1,587 | 132 | #269 | 1,281 |
| 2024 | #1,559 | 136 | #292 | 1,152 |
| 2023 | #1,724 | 119 | #298 | 1,119 |
| 2022 | #1,720 | 121 | #350 | 941 |
| 2021 | #2,848 | 59 | #545 | 536 |
| 2020 | #2,931 | 55 | #582 | 477 |
| 2019 | #3,611 | 42 | #739 | 326 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #809 | 278 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | #936 | 223 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #1,221 | 153 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #1,157 | 162 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | #1,456 | 112 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #1,459 | 113 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #1,407 | 118 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #1,687 | 88 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #1,898 | 75 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #1,825 | 81 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #1,874 | 77 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #2,304 | 56 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,784 | 41 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #2,614 | 42 |
| 2004 | — | #2,697 | 39 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,186 | 29 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,817 | 33 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,476 | 17 | |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #4,389 | 17 |
| 1999 | — | #3,480 | 22 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,960 | 12 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,830 | 17 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,508 | 13 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,228 | 8 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
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| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Koa! It came in at #4,554, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Koa
- 23 spots since 2024 (#292 → #269)
- 313 spots since 2020 (#582 → #269)
- 888 spots since 2015 (#1,157 → #269)
- Biggest jump: 285 spots in 2017 (#1,221 → #936)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2025 at #269 (1,281 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2017–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,333 boys born in 2025 were named Koa (0.07%)
- 71.5% of all boys named Koa (5,506) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1991, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7 | #4,554 (1978) | #4,554 |
| 1980s | 13 | #4,940 (1980) | #5,204 |
| 1990s | 96 | #3,480 (1999) | #5,311 |
| 2000s | 432 | #1,825 (2009) | #2,897 |
| 2010s | 1,648 | #739 (2019) | #1,277 |
| 2020s | 5,506 | #269 (2025) | #389 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Koa in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 131,222 of them was named Koa, which outranked 58.1% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,058Zoelle15
- #8,058Zorah15
- #8,058Zuleima15
- #8,454Koa14
- #8,454Aarianna14
- #8,454Abagayle14
- #8,454Abigayl14
- #8,888Aarika13
- #8,888Abbigal13
- #8,888Abrey13
Tied with 433 names at #8,454; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 24,489 of them was named Koa, which outranked 87.4% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,809Tysen82
- #1,809Yosgart82
- #1,809Zayvion82
- #1,825Koa81
- #1,825Abdullahi81
- #1,825Amaury81
- #1,825Boaz81
- #1,839Akiva80
- #1,839Anirudh80
- #1,839Apollo80
Tied with 13 names at #1,825; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.