Meaning not yet researched.
Kyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 59 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,221 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,221 in 2002; #2,876 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,876 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #1,221.
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Kyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 59 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,221 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 165 (2002).
In 2025, 59 US girls were named Kyah, making it the 2,876th most common girls’ name of the year, down 580 places from #2,296 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 81 girls named Kyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,221, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 165. For comparison, it was #1,926 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kyah in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 6 babies. In all, 3,141 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,265 babies named Kyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 960 US girls were named Kyah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 132. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,242 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Kiya (4,157 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kyah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 2024 | 81 | #2,296 | — | — |
| 2023 | 94 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,622 | — | — |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 2019 | 120 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 2018 | 116 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 2017 | 121 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 2016 | 132 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 2015 | 105 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 2014 | 101 | #1,972 | — | — |
| 2013 | 92 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 2012 | 129 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,891 | — | — |
| 2010 | 99 | #2,022 | — | — |
| 2009 | 110 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 2008 | 115 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 2007 | 144 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 2006 | 124 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,507 | 6 | #10,769 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,571 | 9 | #7,591 |
| 2002 | 165 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 2001 | 134 | #1,415 | 12 | #5,883 |
| 2000 | 76 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,803 | — | — |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,149 | — | — |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,999 | — | — |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,731 | — | — |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,748 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,447 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,787 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,699 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,108 | — | — |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,354 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,103 | — | — |
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).