Kya Girl
How popular is Kya?
#1,235 girl name in 2025
182 baby girls were named Kya in the US in 2025, making it the 1235th most popular girl name.
Kya popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,235 for girls (▼ 152 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 182 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (+13% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,434 in 2015, #1,373 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2004 (381 girls) |
| Highest rank | #706 in 2004 |
| First recorded | 1970 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Kya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Kya family of names ranked #810 for girls in 2025 (#719 the year before), with 296 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Kya is most popular
Babies named Kya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Kya by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 53 | #5,189 |
| 1980s | 105 | #3,667 |
| 1990s | 569 | #1,546 |
| 2000s | 2,629 | #706 |
| 2010s | 1,785 | #1,095 |
| 2020s | 1,231 | #818 |
Girl names about as popular as Kya
Questions
- Is Kya a boy or girl name?
- Kya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Kya were girls.
- How popular is the name Kya?
- 182 baby girls were named Kya in the US in 2025, making it the 1235th most popular girl name.
- When was Kya most popular?
- Kya peaked in 2004, when 381 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #706 in 2004.
- How many people are named Kya?
- 6,385 babies have been named Kya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 6,332 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 17.
- Where is Kya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Kya was most common in Oklahoma, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.