Meaning not yet researched.
Kiah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,313 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,313 in 2002; #3,550 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kiah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,550 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #1,313.
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Kiah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,313 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 149 (2002).
In 2025, 43 US girls were named Kiah, making it the 3,550th most common girls’ name of the year, down 594 places from #2,956 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 56 girls named Kiah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,313, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 149. For comparison, it was #2,829 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kiah in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 3,578 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 7.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,132 babies named Kiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 514 US girls were named Kiah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kia (7,809 babies since 1880), Kya (6,385 babies since 1880), Kiya (4,157 babies since 1880) and Kyah (3,141 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keahi 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: Keahi (359).
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 Kiah in the open dataset we use.
Kiah is listed as a nickname for Hezekiah.
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 | 43 | #3,550 | — | — |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,956 | 6 | #11,728 |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,626 | 9 | #8,613 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,570 | 5 | #13,431 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,846 | 7 | #10,312 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,251 | — | — |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,802 | 5 | #13,211 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,599 | — | — |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,885 | — | — |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,996 | 5 | #13,314 |
| 2015 | 62 | #2,829 | 13 | #6,536 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,954 | — | — |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,027 | — | — |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,553 | — | — |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,651 | 5 | #13,439 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,598 | 6 | #11,557 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,839 | 8 | #9,492 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,569 | 6 | #11,903 |
| 2007 | 86 | #2,270 | 8 | #9,378 |
| 2006 | 99 | #2,009 | 6 | #11,418 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,867 | 10 | #7,427 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,777 | 7 | #9,493 |
| 2003 | 104 | #1,809 | 6 | #10,294 |
| 2002 | 149 | #1,313 | 13 | #5,579 |
| 2001 | 144 | #1,338 | 16 | #4,799 |
| 2000 | 123 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1998 | 103 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1997 | 125 | #1,373 | 12 | #5,131 |
| 1996 | 87 | #1,727 | 10 | #5,788 |
| 1995 | 103 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 1994 | 94 | #1,618 | 8 | #6,712 |
| 1993 | 114 | #1,423 | 6 | #8,197 |
| 1992 | 106 | #1,491 | 9 | #5,916 |
| 1991 | 126 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1990 | 106 | #1,475 | 13 | #4,295 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,863 | 7 | #6,612 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,618 | 6 | #6,877 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,878 | 5 | #7,313 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,738 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,525 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,997 | 9 | #4,331 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,715 | 5 | #6,901 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,543 | 5 | #6,818 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,663 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,731 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,649 | 7 | #4,809 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,991 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,306 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,489 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,157 | 5 | #5,634 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,883 | 6 | #4,826 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,915 | — | — |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,399 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,292 |
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).