In 2025, 57 US girls were named Kiya, making it the 2,947th most common girls’ name of the year, up 11 places from #2,958 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 56 girls named Kiya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #963, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 231. For comparison, it was #2,147 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kiya in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 4,157 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,787 babies named Kiya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 700 US girls were named Kiya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 89. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,198 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kiya ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,308 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kia (7,809 babies since 1880), Kya (6,385 babies since 1880), Kye (5,904 babies since 1880) and Kiah (3,578 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kiayah are summarised on this page.