Kadia
#16,007 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kadia has been given to 165 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #16,007 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Kadia, 2025
1 in 663,000
Kadia over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kadia?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,007
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kadia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kadia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kadias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kadia was born before 2003 — so the typical Kadia is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 32.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 60.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 165
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (54).
Is Kadia 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
- −4,440
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −634
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.83×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 38.5%
- Peak was 1998 (13)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.4% average annual change
Spellings of Kadia
Kadia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 19.1% against Kadia's <0.01%.
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.
Kadia around the world
Where Kadia 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.
- France1979–2025#3,247in 2025
- Canada2022–2022#3,322in 2022
- South Australia1998–1998#710in 1998
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kadia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kadia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kadia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.