# Kaja (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kaja/  
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 | 711 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 711 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 795, 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 | 18 | 6,972 |
| 2012 | 25 | 5,473 |
| 2013 | 13 | 8,799 |
| 2014 | 16 | 7,472 |
| 2015 | 18 | 6,849 |
| 2016 | 18 | 6,776 |
| 2017 | 19 | 6,402 |
| 2018 | 13 | 8,347 |
| 2019 | 13 | 8,352 |
| 2020 | 12 | 8,659 |
| 2021 | 14 | 7,817 |
| 2022 | 13 | 8,265 |
| 2023 | 18 | 6,536 |
| 2024 | 19 | 6,275 |
| 2025 | 16 | 6,973 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 43 | 841 |
| 2012 | 50 | 779 |
| 2013 | 55 | 725 |
| 2014 | 50 | 779 |
| 2015 | 42 | 871 |
| 2016 | 54 | 735 |
| 2017 | 57 | 715 |
| 2018 | 61 | 657 |
| 2019 | 59 | 664 |
| 2020 | 50 | 735 |
| 2021 | 43 | 828 |
| 2022 | 21 | 1,452 |
| 2023 | 21 | 1,469 |
| 2024 | 22 | 1,449 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1,809 |

## People named Kaja

- Kaja Kallas, Estonian politician and former prime minister of Estonia (born 1977)
- Kaja Grobelna, Belgian volleyball player
- Kaja Silverman, American film theorist
- Kaija Parve, Estonian biathlete (born 1964)

## 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.