How rare is the name Kaya?

9,062 people in the United States have the first name Kaya, about 1 in 33,329. It ranks #2,625 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

KAYA

#2,625

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,062
About
1 in 33,329
This common or more
80.4%
Who bears it

Of the 9,062 people named Kaya, 49.8% reported their origin as White, 16.6% as two or more races and 14% as Black. 93.5% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kaya peaked in 2004, when 561 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19682025
Peak year
2004
Births that year
561
In 2025*
221 ▼61%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 10,976 babies have been given the name since 1968. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Kaya by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,119. The largest share of babies named Kaya, 58.5%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#13,98612
1970s#8,38198
1980s#5,996218
1990s#2,5761,066
2000s#1,1194,757
2010s#1,5673,271
2020s#1,8731,554
Generation X 1965–801.1%
Millennials 1981–966.8%
Generation Z 1997–1258.5%
2013 and later33.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kaya is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kaya has been most common in Hawaii (8.1×), Colorado (2.4×), and Washington (2.4×), and least common in Kentucky (0.25×).

8,341 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Kaya

1 other first name also has 9,062 people.

#2,625 Coral · 9,062

Either side of Kaya

#2,624 Gayla · 9,065#2,625 Coral · 9,062#2,627 Selma · 9,055#2,628 Errol · 9,033

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kaya, most common first.

#684 Kay · 77,013#2,252 Kaia · 11,567#2,332 Kaye · 10,908#3,394 Kaiya · 6,212#14,701 Kayo · 797#21,974 Kayah · 457#38,294 Kayia · 201#52,605 Kawa · 106

Also a last name

As a last name, Kaya ranks #16,106 of 156,621, with 1,739 people. See Kaya as a last name

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