Meaning not yet researched.
Ka: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,060 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #2,060 in 1990. No US babies were recorded with the name Ka in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #2,060 in 1990.
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Ka: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,060 in 1990 · most girls in one year: 65 (1990).
Fewer than five US girls were named Ka in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,060, reached in 1990. That year also had the most girls given the name: 65. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Ka in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #4,764, reached in 1984. The most boys given the name in a single year was 10, in 1990. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ka in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 917 US babies have been given the name, 85% of them girls and 15% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 426 babies named Ka.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Ka.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kay (102,545 babies since 1880), Kai (78,710 babies since 1880), Kaia (20,967 babies since 1880) and Kaye (13,707 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ka in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #8,698 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,017 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,628 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,512 | 7 | #8,744 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,848 | 7 | #8,656 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,528 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,033 | — | — |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,504 | 6 | #8,696 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,376 | 9 | #6,246 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,121 | — | — |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,694 | 9 | #5,983 |
| 1992 | 49 | #2,558 | 9 | #5,884 |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,494 | 8 | #6,227 |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,060 | 10 | #5,187 |
| 1989 | 53 | #2,260 | 10 | #5,000 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,823 | 6 | #6,840 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,875 | 5 | #7,555 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,536 | 5 | #7,265 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,890 | 5 | #7,064 |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,700 | 8 | #4,764 |
| 1983 | 39 | #2,410 | 7 | #5,191 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,729 | 5 | #6,855 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,023 | 7 | #5,206 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,358 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,966 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,004 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,933 | — | — |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,027 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,007 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).