Meaning not yet researched.
Kya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 182 in 2025. Its best rank was #706 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #706 in 2004; #1,237 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,237 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #706.
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Kya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 182 girls in 2025. Peak: #706 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 381 (2004).
In 2025, 182 US girls were named Kya, making it the 1,237th most common girls’ name of the year, down 154 places from #1,083 in 2024. That is 47 fewer than the 229 girls named Kya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #706, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 381. For comparison, it was #1,435 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kya in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 7 babies. In all, 6,385 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,642 babies named Kya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,886 US girls were named Kya; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 340. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,831 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kya ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #618 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), Kye (5,904 babies since 1880), Kiya (4,157 babies since 1880) and Kiah (3,578 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keyah, Keeya and Keyo 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: Keyah (101), Keeya (85), Keyo (15), Keye (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 Kya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 7 | #618 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #809 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #871 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #987 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #998 | #1,230 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,061 | #1,007 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,066 | #1,548 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,103 | — |
| Texas | 24 | #1,139 | #1,674 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,326 | #1,070 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,381 | #1,091 |
| California | 15 | #1,535 | #2,242 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,680 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 182 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 2024 | 229 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 2023 | 340 | #818 | — | — |
| 2022 | 182 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 2021 | 140 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 2019 | 134 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 2017 | 173 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 2016 | 205 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 2015 | 161 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 2014 | 180 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 2013 | 175 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 2012 | 195 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 2011 | 192 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 2010 | 227 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 2009 | 204 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 2008 | 233 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 2007 | 266 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 2006 | 282 | #933 | — | — |
| 2005 | 285 | #887 | — | — |
| 2004 | 381 | #706 | — | — |
| 2003 | 299 | #823 | — | — |
| 2002 | 251 | #895 | — | — |
| 2001 | 271 | #845 | 13 | #5,543 |
| 2000 | 157 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 1999 | 109 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,575 | — | — |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,018 | — | — |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,127 | — | — |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,577 | — | — |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,738 | — | — |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,086 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,869 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,268 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,643 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,661 | — | — |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,189 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,575 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,714 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,016 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,313 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,546 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,193 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,362 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,915 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,685 | — | — |
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).