Meaning not yet researched.
Kaiah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 52 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,573 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,573 in 2021; #3,119 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaiah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,119 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #2,573.
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Kaiah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 52 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,573 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 68 (2023).
In 2025, 52 US girls were named Kaiah, making it the 3,119th most common girls’ name of the year, down 213 places from #2,906 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 57 girls named Kaiah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,573, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 68, in 2023. For comparison, it was #3,950 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaiah in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 5 babies. In all, 991 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 406 babies named Kaiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 547 US girls were named Kaiah; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 68. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,909 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kai (78,710 babies since 1880), Kaia (20,967 babies since 1880), Kaya (10,976 babies since 1880) and Kaiya (8,620 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 Kaiah 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #3,119 | — | — |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,906 | — | — |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,602 | — | — |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,053 | — | — |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,573 | — | — |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,944 | — | — |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,329 | — | — |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,740 | — | — |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,950 | — | — |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,957 | — | — |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,588 | — | — |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,955 | — | — |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,507 | — | — |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,536 | — | — |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,293 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,076 | — | — |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,164 | — | — |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,885 | — | — |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,909 | — | — |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,550 | — | — |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,773 | — | — |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,826 | — | — |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,263 | — | — |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,267 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,456 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,575 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,822 | — | — |
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).