Meaning not yet researched.
Koa: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,281 in 2025. Its best rank was #269 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 91% of babies named Koa in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#269 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Koa: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,281 boys in 2025. Peak: #269 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 1,281 (2025).
In 2025, 1,281 US boys were named Koa, making it the 269th most common boys’ name of the year, up 23 places from #292 in 2024. That is 129 more than the 1,152 boys named Koa in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #269, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,281. For comparison, it was #1,158 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Koa in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 7 babies. In all, 8,548 US babies have been given the name, 9.9% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 6,128 babies named Koa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,486 US boys were named Koa; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,281. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,333 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Koa ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #30 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Coy (18,214 babies since 1880), Koi (1,482 babies since 1880), Koah (1,438 babies since 1880) and Koe (565 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kue, Koua and Ku 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: Kue (81), Koua (63), Ku (39), Qua (10).
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 Koa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 22 | #30 | #148 |
| Nevada | 22 | #145 | — |
| Alaska | 6 | #156 | — |
| South Carolina | 31 | #184 | — |
| Delaware | 6 | #192 | — |
| Georgia | 64 | #193 | — |
| Utah | 27 | #204 | — |
| New Mexico | 10 | #206 | — |
| North Carolina | 59 | #210 | — |
| Montana | 6 | #214 | — |
| California | 169 | #221 | #566 |
| Maine | 6 | #222 | — |
| Idaho | 12 | #227 | — |
| Virginia | 38 | #232 | — |
| Florida | 83 | #247 | #794 |
| Alabama | 23 | #247 | — |
| Mississippi | 13 | #248 | — |
| Kansas | 15 | #254 | — |
| Arkansas | 14 | #259 | — |
| Arizona | 30 | #270 | #756 |
| Missouri | 25 | #275 | — |
| Oklahoma | 17 | #287 | — |
| Colorado | 23 | #287 | — |
| Ohio | 42 | #292 | — |
| Maryland | 19 | #293 | — |
| Texas | 131 | #298 | #2,030 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #301 | — |
| Oregon | 14 | #303 | #522 |
| Michigan | 31 | #309 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #309 | — |
| Connecticut | 10 | #311 | — |
| Kentucky | 17 | #312 | — |
| Nebraska | 8 | #316 | — |
| Tennessee | 28 | #317 | — |
| Washington | 23 | #332 | #811 |
| Indiana | 23 | #333 | — |
| Illinois | 32 | #340 | — |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #349 | — |
| Massachusetts | 15 | #352 | — |
| Iowa | 9 | #384 | — |
| Minnesota | 13 | #439 | — |
| New Jersey | 17 | #458 | — |
| New York | 37 | #459 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 132 | #1,588 | 1,281 | #269 |
| 2024 | 136 | #1,566 | 1,152 | #292 |
| 2023 | 119 | #1,732 | 1,119 | #298 |
| 2022 | 121 | #1,726 | 941 | #350 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,869 | 536 | #546 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,949 | 477 | #582 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,645 | 326 | #741 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,959 | 278 | #811 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,752 | 223 | #938 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,364 | 153 | #1,227 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,839 | 162 | #1,158 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,739 | 112 | #1,461 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,947 | 113 | #1,463 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,883 | 118 | #1,413 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,117 | 88 | #1,697 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,916 | 75 | #1,907 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,685 | 81 | #1,836 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,644 | 77 | #1,889 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,611 | 56 | #2,324 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,200 | 41 | #2,811 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,523 | 42 | #2,640 |
| 2004 | — | — | 39 | #2,725 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,242 |
| 2002 | — | — | 33 | #2,856 |
| 2001 | — | — | 17 | #4,597 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,554 | 17 | #4,491 |
| 1999 | — | — | 22 | #3,537 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #6,100 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,134 |
| 1996 | — | — | 17 | #3,938 |
| 1995 | — | — | 13 | #4,672 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,406 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,573 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,085 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,753 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,825 | — | — |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,907 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,225 | 7 | #5,250 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,015 | — | — |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,812 |
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).