Kota
#1,831 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kota has been given to 1,205 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #1,831 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 88 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% boys, 13% girls all-time.
Babies named Kota, 2025
1 in 38,100
Kota 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kota over time
In 2025, Kota went to 19% girls and 81% boys.
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.
How common is Kota?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 38,100
- 87 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 19,600
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,831
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 26,414 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kota sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 26,414 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kota. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kotas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kota was born before 2018 — so the typical Kota is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 42.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,047
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 42.8% of all recorded uses (448).
Is Kota 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
- +219
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +620
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,360
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.42×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 98.9%
- Peak was 2023 (88)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.6% average annual change
Spellings of Kota
Kota is not the most common spelling — Dakota is, with 36.4% against Kota's 0.41%.
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 Kota is used
Across 1910–2025, Kota was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 334,446 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4Illinois1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
- 7Virginia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Kota has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kota around the world
Where Kota 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 & Wales2010–2024#3,689in 2024
- Canada2015–2023#2,436in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kota by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kota
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kota
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.