Kaya
Kaya is ranked 966th among girls in 2024 (268 births). Its best rank was 540th, in 2003.
- Rank in 2024
- #966outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2680.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 2004528 births
- Best rank
- #540in 2003
- Since 1968
- 10,753people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,106 girls have been named Kaya in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 528 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 1,000 → 966).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2000s alone account for 44%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 647 boys have also been given it, 6.0% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2004, its biggest year
Kaya was the 541st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2004 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Olivia and Hannah. See all of 2004.
Names that rose and fell with Kaya
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nayellipeak 2001
- Iyannapeak 2004
- Anahipeak 2006
- Camrynpeak 1999
- Nadiyapeak 2003
- Heavenpeak 2006
- Kamrynpeak 2008
- Kyapeak 2004
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.