Meaning not yet researched.
Koah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 260 in 2025. Its best rank was #912 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 84% of babies named Koah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#912 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Koah: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 260 boys in 2025. Peak: #912 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 260 (2025).
In 2025, 260 US boys were named Koah, making it the 912th most common boys’ name of the year, up 172 places from #1,084 in 2024. That is 59 more than the 201 boys named Koah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #912, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 260. For comparison, it was #4,240 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 51 US girls were named Koah, making it the 3,150th most common girls’ name of the year, up 856 places from #4,006 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 37 girls named Koah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,150, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 51. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Koah in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2005 with 6 babies. In all, 1,438 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,093 babies named Koah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,131 US boys were named Koah; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 260. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,570 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Koah ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #439 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Koa (8,548 babies since 1880), Koi (1,482 babies since 1880) and Koe (565 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Koah 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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 11 | #439 | — |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #595 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #638 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #646 | — |
| Georgia | 15 | #664 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #752 | — |
| Missouri | 7 | #755 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #812 | — |
| Tennessee | 8 | #813 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #817 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #835 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #854 | — |
| Texas | 30 | #867 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #934 | — |
| California | 20 | #1,064 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,098 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,211 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,219 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,361 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,150 | 260 | #912 |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,006 | 201 | #1,084 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,323 | 197 | #1,092 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,293 | 147 | #1,298 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,725 | 76 | #1,974 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,408 | 73 | #1,972 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,928 | 62 | #2,247 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,814 | 36 | #3,208 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,092 | 41 | #2,923 |
| 2016 | — | — | 38 | #3,095 |
| 2015 | — | — | 24 | #4,240 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,739 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,543 |
| 2012 | — | — | 12 | #6,853 |
| 2011 | — | — | 16 | #5,570 |
| 2010 | — | — | 20 | #4,773 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,500 |
| 2008 | — | — | 13 | #6,614 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #13,146 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #10,872 |
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).