Kazuya

#12,985 in 2025Boys' name

One or harmony, peace

Kazuya has been given to 65 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #12,985 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1987, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Kazuya, 2025

1 in 663,000

Kazuya over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kazuya: meaning, origin, and history

One or harmony, peace

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kazuya means

Kazuya means “one or harmony, peace”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kazuya is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /kä.zɨᵝ.jä/ for Kazuya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 65 boys were recorded with the name Kazuya between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1987; its best national rank was #5,209 in 1987.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Kazuya?

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 boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #12,985; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kazuya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kazuya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kazuyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kazuya was born before 2000 — so the typical Kazuya is around 25 today.

Median birth year: 2000; About 25 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 44.6%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 65; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Kazuya 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: 62.5%; Peak was 1987 (8)
Years since peak: 38; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 60.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,209; 1987

Spellings of Kazuya

Kazuya is not the most common spelling — Kazuo is, with 51.2% against Kazuya's 4.4%.

Kazuo51.2%762
Kaya44.5%662
Kazuya4.4%65

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.

Kazuya around the world

Where Kazuya 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.

South Australia
2007–2007
#680
in 2007

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kazuya by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #12,985
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #5,209; 1987
Peak year: 1987; 8 that year
First recorded: 1986
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 65
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Kazuya

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

Kazeem Kazden Kaziah Kazier Kazmir Kazuma Kazen Kazir Kazari Kazuto Kaziel Kazim Kazuki Kazumi Kazai Kaze Kazmer Kazimir Kazimer Kazuo Takuya Kazyn Kazz Kazi

Sibling names for Kazuya

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

Linsey Jessika Jaimie Anthony Daniel Thomas Danyelle Racheal

For a brother

Elizabeth Derrell Jerod Whitney Garrick Coty Bradly Arron

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