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Kiya

#2,947 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kiya has been given to 4,157 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,947 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 231 recorded.

Babies named Kiya, 2025

1 in 58,200

Kiya over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kiya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kiya means

Kiya is a given name.

The naming story behind Kiya

Wikidata records Kiya as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q135020581, 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, 4,134 girls were recorded with the name Kiya between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 231 in 2002; its best national rank was #962 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,457 in 2020 to #2,947 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,147 in 2015 to #2,947 in 2025.

In the United States, 23 boys were recorded with the name Kiya between 1999 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2001; its best national rank was #5,869 in 2001.

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 Kiya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 58,200
57 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 28,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,947
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
40,315 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kiya 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 40,315 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kiyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kiya was born before 2005 — so the typical Kiya is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,134
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (1,775).

Is Kiya 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
+11
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−490
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−800
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.7%
Peak was 2002 (231)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#962
2002

Spellings of Kiya

Kiya is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 20.7% against Kiya's 0.09%.

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 Kiya is used

Across 2016–2025, Kiya was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 47,053 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 33,333
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  4. 4Utah1 in 33,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 50,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 50,000

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.

Kiya around the world

Where Kiya 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
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2008
    #793
    in 2008
  • Ireland
    1997–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • France
    2004–2024
    #5,639
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kiya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,947
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 490
Best rank ever
#962
2002
Peak year
2002
231 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,134
Count in 2025
57

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,869
2001
Peak year
2001
12 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kiya

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

KiyahNiyaDiyaSiyaRiyaLiyaJiyaMiyaMaiyaZiyaKiyomiKiyanaAsiyaPriyaAriyaKaiyaAmiyaSamiyaZaniyaNaiyaTiyaKamiyaJamiyaTaniya

Names with a curve like Kiya

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

PriscilaJanayaJacieKyaraAnjaliSamariaIyanaShreyaAniaVianeySheylaEmalee

Sibling names for Kiya

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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