Kota
#5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births · #1,826 for boys in 2025, 87 births
Given to boys 86.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 88 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,047since 1985
Kota 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 | #5,917 | 20 | #1,826 | 87 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #2,042 | 74 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #1,817 | 88 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | #1,917 | 81 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | #2,173 | 65 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #2,437 | 53 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #2,582 | 50 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #2,546 | 50 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #2,798 | 43 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #2,726 | 44 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #3,149 | 36 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2013 | — | #2,998 | 37 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,862 | 19 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #4,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #4,678 | 20 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #2,991 | 39 |
| 2008 | — | #4,044 | 25 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,808 | 19 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,370 | 21 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,631 | 18 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,793 | 17 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,035 | 15 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,188 | 19 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,445 | 10 | |
| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
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| 1998 | — | #5,466 | 11 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kota! It came in at #6,523, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1992, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kota
- 216 spots since 2024 (#2,042 → #1,826)
- 611 spots since 2020 (#2,437 → #1,826)
- 1,323 spots since 2015 (#3,149 → #1,826)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2023 at #1,817 (88 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,438 boys born in 2023 were named Kota (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,633 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 42.8% of all boys named Kota (448) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #6,523 (1985) | #6,523 |
| 1990s | 52 | #5,466 (1998) | #7,573 |
| 2000s | 188 | #2,991 (2009) | #5,165 |
| 2010s | 354 | #2,546 (2018) | #3,393 |
| 2020s | 448 | #1,817 (2023) | #2,035 |
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.
Kota 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 133,715 of them was named Kota, which outranked 51.8% 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).
- #8,055Zniyah13
- #8,055Zohal13
- #8,055Zooey13
- #8,486Kota12
- #8,486Aalaya12
- #8,486Aaralyn12
- #8,486Aarika12
- #8,989Aaniya11
- #8,989Aaryahi11
- #8,989Aashna11
Tied with 502 names at #8,486; 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 19,438 of them was named Kota, which outranked 87.2% 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).
- #1,803Kobi89
- #1,803Lake89
- #1,803Quinten89
- #1,817Kota88
- #1,817Braxtyn88
- #1,817Dezmond88
- #1,817Finan88
- #1,832Ajani87
- #1,832Bohdi87
- #1,832Caine87
Tied with 14 names at #1,817; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.