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Kiah

#3,549 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kiah has been given to 3,578 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #3,549 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 149 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.

Babies named Kiah, 2025

1 in 77,100

Kiah over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Kiah over time

In 2025, Kiah went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19172025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Kiah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kiah means

Kiah is a given name.

The naming story behind Kiah

Wikidata records Kiah as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q102867501, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,313 girls were recorded with the name Kiah between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 149 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,312 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,251 in 2020 to #3,549 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,829 in 2015 to #3,549 in 2025.

In the United States, 265 boys were recorded with the name Kiah between 1917 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2001; its best national rank was #3,398 in 1943.

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.

How common is Kiah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 37,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,549
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kiah 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kiahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kiah was born before 2002 — so the typical Kiah is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,313
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (1,064).

Is Kiah 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
−593
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−298
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−720
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.9%
Peak was 2002 (149)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,312
2002

Spellings of Kiah

Kiah is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 22.0% against Kiah's 0.23%.

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 Kiah is used

Across 1910–2025, Kiah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 122,098 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 50,000
  3. 3Utah1 in 50,000
  4. 4Washington1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Missouri1 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. Kiah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kiah around the world

Where Kiah 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
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2000–2008
    #793
    in 2008
  • Northern Ireland
    1999–1999
    #344
    in 1999
  • Ireland
    1997–2021
    #883
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1973–2012
    #431
    in 2012

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 Kiah

People whose public names include Kiah, 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.

Kiah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,549
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 298
Best rank ever
#1,312
2002
Peak year
2002
149 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,313
Count in 2025
43

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,398
1943
Peak year
2001
16 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
265
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kiah

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

LiahKiaKiarraKianiNiahKiariAniahKiayaMiahKiarahAmiahKiannaZiahAliahAsiahAnaiahTaliahNariahLeiahKianaNeriahRiahKaliahJamiah

Names with a curve like Kiah

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

MarahKlarissaAlexiShivaniImanBeccaMercedezMonaeAcaciaAsyaKatyaBianka

Sibling names for Kiah

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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