Koah

#3,130 for girls in 2025, 51 births · #912 for boys in 2025, 260 births
Given to boys 88.9% of the time

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Peak · boys
2025 · 260 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,279
since 2005

Koah over time

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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,13051#912260
2024#3,96337#1,082201
2023#5,24824#1,088197
2022#8,03213#1,296147
2021#10,2929#1,96476
2020#15,0885#1,96273
2019#11,3568#2,22862
2018#13,7936#3,17136
2017#14,1246#2,89141
2016#3,05938
2015#4,17924
2014#3,69328
2013#5,40416
2012#6,62612
2011#5,43316
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First appearance
2005

The first year at least five boys were named Koah! It came in at #10,151, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2006–2007, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

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Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 170 spots since 2024 (#1,082#912)
  • 1,050 spots since 2020 (#1,962#912)
  • 3,267 spots since 2015 (#4,179#912)
  • Biggest jump: 170 spots in 2025 (#1,082#912)
Rise & fade · boys
20 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2005
  • Peaked 2025 at #912 (260 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 6,570
  • Highest: 1 in 6,570 boys born in 2025 were named Koah (0.02%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 74.6% of all boys named Koah (954) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s32#6,393 (2008)#9,396
2010s293#2,228 (2019)#4,136
2020s954#912 (2025)#1,384

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.

Koah in 2024

girls
#3,963
37 births · 1 in 43,789 girls
boys
#1,082
201 births · 1 in 8,572 boys

Top girls' names in 2024

  1. #1Olivia14,772
  2. #2Emma13,524
  3. #3Amelia12,786
  4. #4Charlotte12,597
  5. #5Mia12,149
  6. #6Sophia12,126
  7. #7Isabella10,810
  8. #8Evelyn9,146
  9. #9Ava8,700
  10. #10Sofia8,113
  11. #3,963Koah37

Top boys' names in 2024

  1. #1Liam22,252
  2. #2Noah20,409
  3. #3Oliver15,396
  4. #4Theodore12,069
  5. #5James11,856
  6. #6Henry11,596
  7. #7Mateo11,349
  8. #8Elijah11,238
  9. #9Lucas10,743
  10. #10William10,647
  11. #1,082Koah201
More about 2024

girls

1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 43,789 of them was named Koah, which outranked 77.6% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Koah
  1. #3,892Yesbeth38
  2. #3,892Zaeli38
  3. #3,892Zahira38
  4. #3,963Koah37
  5. #3,963Aasiyah37
  6. #3,963Abbigail37
  7. #3,963Ahri37
  8. #4,039Adalind36
  9. #4,039Adrielle36
  10. #4,039Ahsoka36

Tied with 75 names at #3,963; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2023
Risers
  1. 756Ailany#857#101
  2. 439Aylani#1,001#562
  3. 426Marjorie#1,248#822
  4. 414Scottie#616#202
  5. 365Elodie#737#372
Fallers
  1. 605Emryn#887#1,492
  2. 307Zhuri#862#1,169
  3. 301Layne#974#1,275
  4. 273Alitzel#876#1,149
  5. 267Aleyna#964#1,231

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 8,572 of them was named Koah, which outranked 92.4% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Koah
  1. #1,076Palmer202
  2. #1,076Rodney202
  3. #1,076Veer202
  4. #1,082Koah201
  5. #1,082Canaan201
  6. #1,082Kelvin201
  7. #1,082Kooper201
  8. #1,087Gordon200
  9. #1,087Montgomery200
  10. #1,087Shai200

Tied with 4 names at #1,082; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2023
Risers
  1. 9,833Truce#10,821#988
  2. 1,201Colsen#1,832#631
  3. 616Bryer#1,485#869
  4. 470Halo#1,458#988
  5. 348Azaiah#1,230#882
Fallers
  1. 397Khari#827#1,224
  2. 309Karsyn#977#1,286
  3. 256Kye#940#1,196
  4. 225Kole#971#1,196
  5. 224Khai#723#947

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2024