Killua

#6,288 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Killua has been given to 118 babies in the U.S. since 2019. In 2025 it ranked #6,288 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Killua, 2025

1 in 237,000

Killua over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,288
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Killua 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Killua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Killuas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Killua was born before 2022 — so the typical Killua is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
91.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
118
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2020s — 91.5% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Killua 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
−732
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,534
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
51.9%
Peak was 2023 (27)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,072
2023

Spellings of Killua

Killua is not the most common spelling — Killian is, with 92.2% against Killua's 0.67%.

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.

Killua around the world

Where Killua 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.

  • France
    2019–2021
    #7,016
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2022–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Killua by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,288
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,534
Best rank ever
#4,072
2023
Peak year
2023
27 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
118
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Killua

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

Sibling names for Killua

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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