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Kaiya

#994 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kaiya has been given to 8,620 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #994 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 389 recorded.

Babies named Kaiya, 2025

1 in 13,000

Kaiya over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaiya: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaiya means

Kaiya is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kaiya is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,587 girls were recorded with the name Kaiya between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 389 in 2002; its best national rank was #651 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #987 in 2020 to #994 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #886 in 2015 to #994 in 2025.

In the United States, 33 boys were recorded with the name Kaiya between 2001 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2002; its best national rank was #5,018 in 2002.

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 Kaiya?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,000
255 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,300
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#994
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,013 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaiya 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 2025 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,013 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaiyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaiya was born before 2011 — so the typical Kaiya is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,587
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Choose a decade

2000s — 37.1% of all recorded uses (3,188).

Is Kaiya 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
−131
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−108
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.6%
Peak was 2002 (389)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#651
2002

Spellings of Kaiya

Kaiya is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 17.8% against Kaiya's 0.44%.

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.

Where Kaiya is used

Across 2016–2025, Kaiya was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 625 girls, against 1 in 5,481 across all states with data. It was least common in Nevada (1 in 20,000).

5160 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 625
  2. 2Colorado1 in 2,941
  3. 3Utah1 in 3,125
  4. 4Washington1 in 3,333
  5. 5Arizona1 in 3,448
  6. 6Oregon1 in 3,704
  7. 7California1 in 4,167
  8. 8Virginia1 in 4,348

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Kaiya is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 99% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kaiya around the world

Where Kaiya 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
    1996–2025
    #1,407
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1996–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2012–2017
    #432
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2006–2024
    #556
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #647
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kaiya

People whose public names include Kaiya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kaiya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#994
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7
Best rank ever
#651
2002
Peak year
2002
389 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,587
Count in 2025
255

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,018
2002
Peak year
2002
15 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
33
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kaiya

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

KairiKailaKairaKailiKaileeKailyKailynAmiyaAriyaAliyaKaiPriyaKaiaKailaniKaileyMaiyaAniyaMiyaKailahKailynnKaijaKaiahSaniyaJaniya

Names with a curve like Kaiya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kaiya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TaliyahSarahiNathaliaAkiraNathalyKeylaIsabelaYareliLaneySariahGianaCampbell

Sibling names for Kaiya

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

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