Meaning not yet researched.
Kaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 206 in 2025. Its best rank was #540 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #540 in 2003; #1,133 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Kaya in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,133 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #540.
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Kaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 206 girls in 2025. Peak: #540 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 528 (2004).
In 2025, 206 US girls were named Kaya, making it the 1,133rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 166 places from #967 in 2024. That is 63 fewer than the 269 girls named Kaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #540, reached in 2003. The most girls given the name in a single year was 528, in 2004. For comparison, it was #860 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaya in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 6 babies. In all, 10,976 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 6.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,757 babies named Kaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,552 US girls were named Kaya; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 282. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,802 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaya ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #716 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaia (20,967 babies since 1880), Kay (102,545 babies since 1880), Kai (78,710 babies since 1880) and Kaye (13,707 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cahya 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cahya (15).
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 Kaya 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 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 9 | #716 | — |
| New Jersey | 10 | #745 | #639 |
| Utah | 5 | #762 | #663 |
| Washington | 8 | #773 | #621 |
| Illinois | 11 | #830 | #620 |
| California | 35 | #848 | #623 |
| Michigan | 8 | #908 | #864 |
| Colorado | 5 | #982 | #593 |
| New York | 13 | #1,120 | #908 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,172 | #847 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,283 | #894 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,335 | #1,992 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,494 | #963 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 206 | #1,133 | 15 | #6,001 |
| 2024 | 269 | #967 | 18 | #5,342 |
| 2023 | 247 | #1,026 | 18 | #5,360 |
| 2022 | 254 | #1,019 | 14 | #6,325 |
| 2021 | 254 | #1,009 | 10 | #7,874 |
| 2020 | 236 | #1,056 | 13 | #6,470 |
| 2019 | 268 | #973 | 15 | #5,965 |
| 2018 | 254 | #1,022 | 18 | #5,211 |
| 2017 | 282 | #937 | 15 | #5,941 |
| 2016 | 282 | #962 | 10 | #7,882 |
| 2015 | 326 | #860 | 15 | #5,877 |
| 2014 | 264 | #1,000 | 16 | #5,596 |
| 2013 | 357 | #761 | 21 | #4,541 |
| 2012 | 331 | #810 | 18 | #5,144 |
| 2011 | 383 | #723 | 18 | #5,092 |
| 2010 | 357 | #767 | 21 | #4,604 |
| 2009 | 426 | #685 | 17 | #5,434 |
| 2008 | 480 | #641 | 31 | #3,529 |
| 2007 | 428 | #684 | 18 | #5,115 |
| 2006 | 447 | #645 | 29 | #3,566 |
| 2005 | 435 | #642 | 21 | #4,270 |
| 2004 | 528 | #541 | 33 | #3,048 |
| 2003 | 519 | #540 | 18 | #4,524 |
| 2002 | 499 | #551 | 47 | #2,235 |
| 2001 | 410 | #613 | 56 | #1,945 |
| 2000 | 301 | #758 | 14 | #5,189 |
| 1999 | 192 | #1,054 | 15 | #4,656 |
| 1998 | 162 | #1,164 | 15 | #4,529 |
| 1997 | 133 | #1,310 | 14 | #4,574 |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,456 | 10 | #5,775 |
| 1995 | 82 | #1,769 | 13 | #4,661 |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,986 | 8 | #6,690 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,974 | 7 | #7,216 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,258 | 9 | #5,888 |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,980 | — | — |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,435 | 11 | #4,672 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,343 | 5 | #7,913 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,678 | 5 | #7,572 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,841 | — | — |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,205 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,068 | — | — |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,995 | — | — |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,806 | 6 | #6,023 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,238 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,567 | — | — |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,941 | — | — |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,327 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,920 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,783 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,987 | 5 | #5,906 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,977 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,853 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,927 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,478 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,008 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,589 | — | — |
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).