# Kaiya (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kaiya/  
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 | 8,620 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 33 / 8,587 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 849, 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 | 341 | 795 |
| 2012 | 335 | 802 |
| 2013 | 261 | 967 |
| 2014 | 290 | 932 |
| 2015 | 312 | 886 |
| 2016 | 290 | 945 |
| 2017 | 277 | 957 |
| 2018 | 290 | 923 |
| 2019 | 259 | 999 |
| 2020 | 259 | 987 |
| 2021 | 279 | 945 |
| 2022 | 308 | 903 |
| 2023 | 353 | 798 |
| 2024 | 314 | 863 |
| 2025 | 255 | 994 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 12 | 5,849 |
| 2002 | 15 | 5,025 |
| 2005 | 6 | 10,775 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 44 | 830 |
| 2012 | 37 | 975 |
| 2013 | 30 | 1,148 |
| 2014 | 24 | 1,341 |
| 2015 | 33 | 1,057 |
| 2016 | 22 | 1,472 |
| 2017 | 23 | 1,411 |
| 2018 | 49 | 778 |
| 2019 | 20 | 1,497 |
| 2020 | 26 | 1,238 |
| 2021 | 31 | 1,102 |
| 2022 | 22 | 1,416 |
| 2023 | 36 | 962 |
| 2024 | 35 | 1,007 |
| 2025 | 22 | 1,407 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | 2,254 |
| 2003 | 6 | 2,189 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3,865 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |

## 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.