Keyia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keyia has been given to 68 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1975, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Keyia, 1999
1 in 738,000
Keyia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Keyia?
Keyia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1999
- 1 in 738,000
- 5 of 3,692,373 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 355,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1999
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 511,873 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keyia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keyia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keyias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keyia was born before 1982 — so the typical Keyia is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 41.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 68
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (28).
Is Keyia 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
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- 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 1975 (10)
- Years since peak
- 50
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.2% average annual change
Spellings of Keyia
Keyia is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 36.6% against Keyia'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.
Keyia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Keyia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keyia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.