Meaning not yet researched.
Kimaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 38 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,695 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,695 in 2009; #3,870 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kimaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,870 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #2,695.
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Kimaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 38 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,695 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 68 (2009).
In 2025, 38 US girls were named Kimaya, making it the 3,870th most common girls’ name of the year, up 466 places from #4,336 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 33 girls named Kimaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,695, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 68. For comparison, it was #3,952 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kimaya in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 6 babies. In all, 1,104 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 421 babies named Kimaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 342 US girls were named Kimaya; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,297 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Kima, Kemaya and Kimayah 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kima (377), Kemaya (168), Kimayah (25), Keymaya (10), Keimaya (6), Kymaya (5).
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 Kimaya 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 | 38 | #3,870 | — | — |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,336 | — | — |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,858 | — | — |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,563 | — | — |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,704 | — | — |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,883 | — | — |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,716 | — | — |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,267 | — | — |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,586 | — | — |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,952 | — | — |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,885 | — | — |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,499 | — | — |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,821 | — | — |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,973 | — | — |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,448 | — | — |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,695 | — | — |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,820 | — | — |
| 2007 | 59 | #3,015 | — | — |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,533 | — | — |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,776 | — | — |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,862 | — | — |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,742 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,259 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,146 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,509 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,170 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,548 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,067 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,294 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,637 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,420 | — | — |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,248 | — | — |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,312 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,065 | — | — |
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).