Meaning not yet researched.
Kia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #634 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #634 in 1983; #8,621 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,621 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #634.
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Kia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #634 in 1983 · most girls in one year: 344 (1993).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Kia, making it the 8,621st most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,198 places from #12,819 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 7 girls named Kia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #634, reached in 1983. The most girls given the name in a single year was 344, in 1993. For comparison, it was #7,817 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kia in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 5 babies. In all, 7,809 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,362 babies named Kia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 137 US girls were named Kia; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaia (20,967 babies since 1880), Nakia (10,744 babies since 1880), Kya (6,385 babies since 1880) and Kye (5,904 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ky, Kee and Kyia 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: Ky (1,659), Kee (1,416), Kyia (1,055), Khia (871), Kiaya (858), Kei (837), Kea (653), Keia (597), Ki (535), Kyiah (443), Keo (305), Kyo (201), and more.
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 Kia 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 | 12 | #8,621 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,819 | 6 | #11,727 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,447 | 5 | #13,292 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,878 | 5 | #13,430 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,956 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,785 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,950 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,261 | 5 | #13,255 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,091 | 5 | #13,357 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,081 | 6 | #11,520 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,817 | — | — |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,715 | — | — |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,748 | — | — |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,332 | — | — |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,627 | — | — |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,334 | — | — |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,425 | — | — |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,409 | — | — |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,883 | — | — |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,340 | 5 | #13,125 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,919 | 5 | #12,490 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,827 | — | — |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,479 | 5 | #11,925 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,882 | 6 | #10,106 |
| 2001 | 106 | #1,708 | 8 | #7,983 |
| 2000 | 132 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 1999 | 153 | #1,234 | 9 | #6,843 |
| 1998 | 209 | #972 | 5 | #10,532 |
| 1997 | 193 | #1,006 | 11 | #5,490 |
| 1996 | 226 | #876 | 8 | #6,844 |
| 1995 | 211 | #899 | 8 | #6,719 |
| 1994 | 229 | #859 | 8 | #6,711 |
| 1993 | 344 | #649 | 13 | #4,592 |
| 1992 | 247 | #813 | — | — |
| 1991 | 253 | #809 | — | — |
| 1990 | 229 | #861 | 6 | #7,671 |
| 1989 | 205 | #899 | 12 | #4,415 |
| 1988 | 153 | #1,048 | 8 | #5,475 |
| 1987 | 196 | #867 | 5 | #7,603 |
| 1986 | 264 | #690 | 8 | #5,119 |
| 1985 | 219 | #773 | 6 | #6,189 |
| 1984 | 188 | #833 | — | — |
| 1983 | 272 | #634 | 7 | #5,223 |
| 1982 | 270 | #662 | — | — |
| 1981 | 263 | #666 | — | — |
| 1980 | 224 | #740 | — | — |
| 1979 | 185 | #841 | 8 | #4,646 |
| 1978 | 237 | #673 | — | — |
| 1977 | 217 | #715 | 8 | #4,401 |
| 1976 | 177 | #794 | — | — |
| 1975 | 186 | #763 | 5 | #5,925 |
| 1974 | 183 | #763 | — | — |
| 1973 | 162 | #811 | — | — |
| 1972 | 156 | #838 | — | — |
| 1971 | 161 | #850 | — | — |
| 1970 | 106 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1969 | 65 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1968 | 58 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,385 | — | — |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,252 | — | — |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,091 | — | — |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,893 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,960 | — | — |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,174 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,564 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,422 | — | — |
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).