Meaning not yet researched.
Kota: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 87 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,820 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,820 in 2023; #1,831 in 2025. About 81% of babies named Kota in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,831 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,820.
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Kota: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 87 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,820 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 88 (2023).
In 2025, 87 US boys were named Kota, making it the 1,831st most common boys’ name of the year, up 219 places from #2,050 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 74 boys named Kota in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,820, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 88. For comparison, it was #3,192 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Kota, making it the 6,025th most common girls’ name of the year, up 513 places from #6,538 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 18 girls named Kota in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6,025, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 20. For comparison, it was #17,921 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kota in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 5 babies. In all, 1,205 US babies have been given the name, 13% of them girls and 87% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 535 babies named Kota.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 635 US boys were named Kota; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 88. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,633 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kota ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #1,184 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Coeta, Kouta and Kotah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Coeta (40), Kouta (27), Kotah (11), Cota (8), Cotha (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 Kota 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 5 | #1,184 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,405 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #1,712 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,923 | #2,159 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,025 | 87 | #1,831 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,538 | 74 | #2,050 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,754 | 88 | #1,820 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,080 | 81 | #1,928 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,293 | 65 | #2,184 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,650 | 53 | #2,452 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,959 | 50 | #2,609 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,821 | 50 | #2,564 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,096 | 43 | #2,826 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,655 | 44 | #2,747 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,921 | 36 | #3,192 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,888 | 32 | #3,426 |
| 2013 | — | — | 37 | #3,031 |
| 2012 | — | — | 19 | #4,959 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,298 | 23 | #4,296 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,558 | 20 | #4,775 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,529 | 39 | #3,024 |
| 2008 | — | — | 25 | #4,096 |
| 2007 | — | — | 19 | #4,912 |
| 2006 | — | — | 21 | #4,441 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,747 |
| 2004 | — | — | 17 | #4,911 |
| 2003 | — | — | 15 | #5,173 |
| 2002 | — | — | 19 | #4,265 |
| 2001 | — | — | 10 | #6,741 |
| 2000 | — | — | 5 | #11,409 |
| 1998 | — | — | 11 | #5,675 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,781 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,607 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,405 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,335 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,211 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,206 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,970 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,111 |
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).