# Kaia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kaia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 20,967 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 58 / 20,909 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,716, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 480 | 597 |
| 2012 | 522 | 563 |
| 2013 | 466 | 604 |
| 2014 | 567 | 545 |
| 2015 | 708 | 447 |
| 2016 | 886 | 368 |
| 2017 | 993 | 331 |
| 2018 | 1,066 | 312 |
| 2019 | 1,015 | 315 |
| 2020 | 1,076 | 300 |
| 2021 | 1,304 | 231 |
| 2022 | 1,335 | 225 |
| 2023 | 1,613 | 186 |
| 2024 | 1,680 | 180 |
| 2025 | 1,618 | 193 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 9 | 7,209 |
| 2002 | 5 | 11,576 |
| 2004 | 6 | 10,649 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,466 |
| 2016 | 10 | 7,870 |
| 2017 | 7 | 10,223 |
| 2018 | 5 | 13,134 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,285 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,932 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 34 | 1,015 |
| 2012 | 27 | 1,210 |
| 2013 | 35 | 1,018 |
| 2014 | 36 | 1,005 |
| 2015 | 48 | 794 |
| 2016 | 74 | 567 |
| 2017 | 72 | 589 |
| 2018 | 85 | 503 |
| 2019 | 79 | 513 |
| 2020 | 97 | 436 |
| 2021 | 127 | 363 |
| 2022 | 137 | 320 |
| 2023 | 154 | 288 |
| 2024 | 159 | 283 |
| 2025 | 173 | 265 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | 2,254 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |

## People named Kaia

- Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player (born 1985)
- Kaia Gerber, American model and actress (born 2001)
- Kaia Iva, Estonian politician (1964–2023)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.