# Koa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/koa/  
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 | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,548 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,702 / 846 (10% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,244, 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 | 7 | 14,117 |
| 2012 | 10 | 10,883 |
| 2013 | 11 | 9,947 |
| 2014 | 13 | 8,739 |
| 2015 | 11 | 9,839 |
| 2016 | 8 | 12,364 |
| 2017 | 22 | 5,752 |
| 2018 | 17 | 6,959 |
| 2019 | 42 | 3,645 |
| 2020 | 55 | 2,949 |
| 2021 | 59 | 2,869 |
| 2022 | 121 | 1,726 |
| 2023 | 119 | 1,732 |
| 2024 | 136 | 1,566 |
| 2025 | 132 | 1,588 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 88 | 1,697 |
| 2012 | 118 | 1,413 |
| 2013 | 113 | 1,463 |
| 2014 | 112 | 1,461 |
| 2015 | 162 | 1,158 |
| 2016 | 153 | 1,227 |
| 2017 | 223 | 938 |
| 2018 | 278 | 811 |
| 2019 | 326 | 741 |
| 2020 | 477 | 582 |
| 2021 | 536 | 546 |
| 2022 | 941 | 350 |
| 2023 | 1,119 | 298 |
| 2024 | 1,152 | 292 |
| 2025 | 1,281 | 269 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 6 | 3,447 |
| 2021 | 13 | 2,073 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,888 |
| 2023 | 14 | 1,959 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2,253 |
| 2025 | 14 | 2,006 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,458 |
| 2013 | 7 | 2,660 |
| 2014 | 22 | 1,178 |
| 2015 | 10 | 2,150 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2017 | 30 | 996 |
| 2018 | 22 | 1,194 |
| 2019 | 63 | 589 |
| 2020 | 83 | 473 |
| 2021 | 81 | 489 |
| 2022 | 143 | 316 |
| 2023 | 178 | 258 |
| 2024 | 245 | 206 |
| 2025 | 259 | 199 |

## 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.