Kia
Kia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 634th, in 1983.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1993344 births
- Best rank
- #634in 1983
- Since 1956
- 7,797people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,601 girls have been named Kia in the United States since 1956, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 344 births.
The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 344 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 1990s alone account for 30%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 196 boys have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1993, its biggest year
Kia was the 649th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1993 were Jessica, Ashley, Sarah, Samantha and Emily. See all of 1993.
Names that rose and fell with Kia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tiffanipeak 1981
- Shantellpeak 1987
- Erikapeak 1990
- Erinnpeak 1990
- Cameopeak 1992
- Shalapeak 1991
- Shannahpeak 1978
- Rosiopeak 1981
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.