Caya

Girls' name

Diminutive of Acadia

Caya has been given to 192 babies in the U.S. since 1992. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2004, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Caya, 2024

1 in 557,000

Caya over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Caya: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Acadia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Caya means

Caya is a diminutive of Acadia.

Origin, language, and formation

Caya is used in Asturian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Acadia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Asturian, Caya is pronounced /ˈkaʝa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 192 girls were recorded with the name Caya between 1992 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2004; its best national rank was #6,538 in 2004.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Caya?

Caya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 270,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Caya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Caya was born before 2006 — so the typical Caya is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 49.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 86.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 192; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 49.0% of all recorded uses (94).

Is Caya rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2004 (18)
Years since peak: 21; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 42.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,538; 2004

Spellings of Caya

Caya is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 9.7% against Caya's <0.01%.

Sara9.7%436,193
Kayla7.7%346,570
Ava7.7%344,097
Clara6.7%300,524
Dana4.3%193,555
Tara3.9%175,812
Cora3.5%156,028
Carla3.3%150,390

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Caya around the world

Where Caya ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2008–2018
#5,666
in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Caya by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,538; 2004
Peak year: 2004; 18 that year
First recorded: 1992
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 192
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Caya

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Vaya Cayli Caydee Faya Baya Imaya Fraya Raaya Rhaya Azaya Cay Khaya Caylani Smaya Caycee Cayci Cayle Saaya Emaya Caye Omaya Caylen Savaya Enaya

Sibling names for Caya

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Iyanna Jasmyn Elyssa Shreya Anastacia Jaci Delanie Yahaira

For a brother

Kadin Alexandro Lazaro Reagan Braulio Alexandre Johnpaul Mikel

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