Kya
#1,235 for girls in 2025, 182 births · Last seen for boys in 2001 at #5,390
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 381 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,372since 1970
Kya over time
Rank among girls' names. Kya has never cracked the top 700 here.
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 | #1,235 | 182 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,083 | 229 | — | |
| 2023 | #818 | 340 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,295 | 182 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,506 | 140 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,373 | 158 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,585 | 134 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,520 | 143 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,340 | 173 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,209 | 205 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,434 | 161 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,314 | 180 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,336 | 175 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,243 | 195 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,244 | 192 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,095 | 227 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,218 | 204 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,108 | 233 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,000 | 266 | — | |
| 2006 | #932 | 282 | — | |
| 2005 | #885 | 285 | — | |
| 2004 | #706 | 381 | — | |
| 2003 | #822 | 299 | — | |
| 2002 | #894 | 251 | — | |
| 2001 | #843 | 271 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #1,245 | 157 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,548 | 109 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,066 | 71 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,556 | 50 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,714 | 45 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,244 | 59 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,688 | 88 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,990 | 39 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,830 | 42 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,097 | 36 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,523 | 30 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | — | |
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| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | — | |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | — | |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | — | |
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| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | — | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | — | |
| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 | — | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kya! It came in at #6,362, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kya
- 152 spots since 2024 (#1,083 → #1,235)
- 138 spots since 2020 (#1,373 → #1,235)
- 199 spots since 2015 (#1,434 → #1,235)
- Biggest jump: 477 spots in 2023 (#1,295 → #818)
- Biggest drop: 265 spots in 2024 (#818 → #1,083)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2004 at #706 (381 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2001–2007
- Highest: 1 in 4,719 girls born in 2023 were named Kya (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,831 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #706 in 2004, was only 1 in 4,820 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.3% of all girls named Kya (2,629) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 53 | #5,191 (1973) | #6,777 |
| 1980s | 105 | #3,673 (1989) | #6,373 |
| 1990s | 569 | #1,548 (1999) | #2,526 |
| 2000s | 2,629 | #706 (2004) | #965 |
| 2010s | 1,785 | #1,095 (2010) | #1,332 |
| 2020s | 1,231 | #818 (2023) | #1,218 |
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.
Kya in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 6,644 of them was named Kya, which outranked 95.3% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 149,452 of them was named Kya, which outranked 56.2% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,142Yuuki14
- #5,142Zabdiel14
- #5,142Zenon14
- #5,390Kya13
- #5,390Aaric13
- #5,390Abdulahi13
- #5,390Abhi13
- #5,667Aarion12
- #5,667Abdur12
- #5,667Abid12
Tied with 276 names at #5,390; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.