Meaning not yet researched.
Kaiya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 255 in 2025. Its best rank was #651 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #651 in 2002; #994 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaiya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#994 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #651.
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Kaiya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 255 girls in 2025. Peak: #651 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 389 (2002).
In 2025, 255 US girls were named Kaiya, making it the 994th most common girls’ name of the year, down 131 places from #863 in 2024. That is 59 fewer than the 314 girls named Kaiya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #651, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 389. For comparison, it was #886 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaiya in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 6 babies. In all, 8,620 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,221 babies named Kaiya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,884 US girls were named Kaiya; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 353. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,303 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaiya ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #494 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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). Rarer spellings such as Caiyah 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: Caiyah (88).
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 Kaiya 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 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 14 | #494 | #509 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #585 | #550 |
| Missouri | 9 | #611 | #792 |
| California | 42 | #745 | #763 |
| Colorado | 7 | #745 | #830 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #746 | #857 |
| Ohio | 12 | #766 | #815 |
| Georgia | 11 | #883 | #1,120 |
| Maryland | 5 | #907 | #969 |
| Illinois | 9 | #963 | #1,109 |
| Virginia | 7 | #983 | #749 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,140 | #1,022 |
| Texas | 23 | #1,174 | #1,078 |
| New York | 12 | #1,198 | #1,041 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,286 | #1,083 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 255 | #994 | — | — |
| 2024 | 314 | #863 | — | — |
| 2023 | 353 | #798 | — | — |
| 2022 | 308 | #903 | — | — |
| 2021 | 279 | #945 | — | — |
| 2020 | 259 | #987 | — | — |
| 2019 | 259 | #999 | — | — |
| 2018 | 290 | #923 | — | — |
| 2017 | 277 | #957 | — | — |
| 2016 | 290 | #945 | — | — |
| 2015 | 312 | #886 | — | — |
| 2014 | 290 | #932 | — | — |
| 2013 | 261 | #967 | — | — |
| 2012 | 335 | #802 | — | — |
| 2011 | 341 | #795 | — | — |
| 2010 | 372 | #747 | — | — |
| 2009 | 358 | #793 | — | — |
| 2008 | 379 | #775 | — | — |
| 2007 | 353 | #814 | — | — |
| 2006 | 312 | #856 | — | — |
| 2005 | 346 | #768 | 6 | #10,775 |
| 2004 | 282 | #872 | — | — |
| 2003 | 306 | #807 | — | — |
| 2002 | 389 | #651 | 15 | #5,025 |
| 2001 | 295 | #799 | 12 | #5,849 |
| 2000 | 168 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1999 | 108 | #1,564 | — | — |
| 1998 | 85 | #1,823 | — | — |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 1996 | 54 | #2,406 | — | — |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,316 | — | — |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,653 | — | — |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,125 | — | — |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,764 | — | — |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,664 | — | — |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,663 | — | — |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,943 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,730 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,963 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,730 | — | — |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,342 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,431 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,699 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,130 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,432 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,940 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,503 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,118 | — | — |
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).