Meaning not yet researched.
Kaia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,618 in 2025. Its best rank was #180 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #180 in 2024; #193 in 2025. About 99.6% of babies named Kaia in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#193 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #180.
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Kaia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,618 girls in 2025. Peak: #180 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 1,680 (2024).
In 2025, 1,618 US girls were named Kaia, making it the 193rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 13 places from #180 in 2024. That is 62 fewer than the 1,680 girls named Kaia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #180, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,680. For comparison, it was #447 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaia in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 5 babies. In all, 20,967 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 8,637 babies named Kaia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,586 US girls were named Kaia; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,680. In 2025 that was about 1 in 993 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaia ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #9 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaya (10,976 babies since 1880), Kia (7,809 babies since 1880), Caia (1,201 babies since 1880) and Kay (102,545 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaija, Kaja and Caiya are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kaija (1,028), Kaja (711), Caiya (445), Kahiau (256), Caiah (66), Kahea (15), Caua (11).
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 Kaia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 7 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 29 | #9 | #34 |
| California | 359 | #79 | #355 |
| Washington | 72 | #81 | #216 |
| Wyoming | 5 | #91 | — |
| New York | 133 | #114 | #414 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #136 | — |
| Florida | 133 | #136 | #316 |
| Nevada | 18 | #136 | #268 |
| New Jersey | 56 | #140 | #445 |
| Oregon | 24 | #150 | #302 |
| Massachusetts | 34 | #166 | #589 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #169 | — |
| Colorado | 34 | #173 | #332 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #174 | — |
| Minnesota | 30 | #180 | #496 |
| Illinois | 55 | #182 | #549 |
| Connecticut | 18 | #183 | #350 |
| Arizona | 36 | #184 | #549 |
| New Hampshire | 7 | #187 | — |
| Montana | 6 | #188 | — |
| New Mexico | 8 | #197 | #353 |
| Maryland | 23 | #228 | #403 |
| Iowa | 15 | #240 | — |
| Utah | 19 | #245 | #439 |
| Pennsylvania | 42 | #260 | #731 |
| Ohio | 43 | #262 | #437 |
| Michigan | 34 | #269 | #539 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #276 | #386 |
| Indiana | 24 | #297 | #523 |
| Virginia | 28 | #304 | #508 |
| North Carolina | 35 | #313 | #663 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #319 | #280 |
| Kansas | 10 | #341 | #382 |
| Texas | 99 | #349 | #719 |
| Tennessee | 23 | #355 | #561 |
| Georgia | 28 | #412 | #538 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #417 | — |
| South Carolina | 12 | #428 | #611 |
| Idaho | 5 | #442 | — |
| Louisiana | 10 | #452 | #714 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #456 | — |
| Missouri | 13 | #461 | #585 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #469 | #791 |
| Alabama | 9 | #551 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,618 | #193 | 5 | #12,932 |
| 2024 | 1,680 | #180 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,613 | #186 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,335 | #225 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,304 | #231 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,076 | #300 | 6 | #11,285 |
| 2019 | 1,015 | #315 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,066 | #312 | 5 | #13,134 |
| 2017 | 993 | #331 | 7 | #10,223 |
| 2016 | 886 | #368 | 10 | #7,870 |
| 2015 | 708 | #447 | — | — |
| 2014 | 567 | #545 | — | — |
| 2013 | 466 | #604 | — | — |
| 2012 | 522 | #563 | — | — |
| 2011 | 480 | #597 | — | — |
| 2010 | 536 | #547 | — | — |
| 2009 | 509 | #592 | 5 | #13,466 |
| 2008 | 462 | #665 | — | — |
| 2007 | 466 | #639 | — | — |
| 2006 | 408 | #695 | — | — |
| 2005 | 401 | #691 | — | — |
| 2004 | 385 | #698 | 6 | #10,649 |
| 2003 | 434 | #619 | — | — |
| 2002 | 444 | #584 | 5 | #11,576 |
| 2001 | 257 | #893 | 9 | #7,209 |
| 2000 | 242 | #905 | — | — |
| 1999 | 146 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1997 | 70 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,388 | — | — |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,134 | — | — |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,014 | — | — |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,169 | — | — |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,680 | — | — |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,318 | — | — |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,517 | — | — |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,523 | — | — |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,560 | — | — |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,689 | — | — |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,951 | — | — |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,658 | — | — |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,357 | — | — |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,700 | — | — |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,225 | — | — |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,907 | — | — |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,593 | — | — |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,038 | — | — |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,437 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,112 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,022 | — | — |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,620 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,732 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,209 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,237 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,578 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,179 | — | — |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,641 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,171 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,953 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,808 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,124 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,261 | — | — |
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).