Kaiyah
#3,864 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaiyah has been given to 1,235 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #3,864 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 71 recorded.
Babies named Kaiyah, 2025
1 in 87,200
Kaiyah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kaiyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 87,200
- 38 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 42,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,864
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 60,472 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaiyah 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 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaiyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaiyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaiyah was born before 2015 — so the typical Kaiyah is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 47.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,235
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 47.0% of all recorded uses (581).
Is Kaiyah 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
- −1,242
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −994
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,329
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.54×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 53.5%
- Peak was 2015 (71)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 12.9% average annual change
Spellings of Kaiyah
Kaiyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 18.2% against Kaiyah's 0.20%.
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 Kaiyah is used
Across 2016–2025, Kaiyah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 43,235 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 33,333
- 2Florida1 in 33,333
- 3South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 4Texas1 in 33,333
- 5Georgia1 in 100,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 7New York1 in 100,000
- 8Ohio1 in 100,000
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.
Kaiyah around the world
Where Kaiyah 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 & Wales2006–2025#3,705in 2025
- Canada2009–2021#3,354in 2021
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kaiyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kaiyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kaiyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.