How rare is the name Kya?

4,877 people in the United States have the first name Kya, about 1 in 61,930. It ranks #3,989 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KYA

#3,989

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,877
About
1 in 61,930
This common or more
83.4%
Who bears it

Of the 4,877 people named Kya, 44.3% reported their origin as White, 29.1% as Black and 14.6% as two or more races. 98.2% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kya peaked in 2004, when 381 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19702025
Peak year
2004
Births that year
381
In 2025*
182 ▼52%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,385 babies have been given the name since 1970. 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.

Kya by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,669. The largest share of babies named Kya, 54.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#11,63853
1980s#9,738105
1990s#3,916569
2000s#1,6692,642
2010s#2,3861,785
2020s#2,1991,231
Generation X 1965–801%
Millennials 1981–966.8%
Generation Z 1997–1254.6%
2013 and later37.6%

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 Kya is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kya has been most common in Utah (3.1×), Oregon (2×), and Indiana (1.8×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.31×).

4,255 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.

Either side of Kya

#3,984 Yoel · 4,884#3,988 Camdyn · 4,883#3,990 Kennith · 4,876#3,991 Daysi · 4,875

Spelled almost the same

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

#3,997 Kye · 4,864#4,622 Ky · 3,972#6,555 Kyah · 2,435#7,595 Kyaw · 1,994#9,332 Kyu · 1,495#13,624 Kyia · 881#17,700 Kyi · 618#23,590 Kyo · 414

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