girls:
17.6k births since 1955
#1118 (80th percentile)
boys:
53 births since 2001
#4533 (1st percentile)
overall:
17.6k births since 1955
#1940 (75th percentile)
The name Kaia is the #1,940 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,646 recorded births since 1955. This represents the 74.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,118 (80.4% percentile) for all time with 17,593 births since 1955. For boys, it ranks #4,533 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 53 births since 2001.
Kaia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1955 (1955 for girls and 2001 for boys). Birth data for Kaia is available in 63 out of the 69 years between 1955 and 2023 (63 years for girls and 8 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kaia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kaia reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 81.2% percentile (ranked #179) with 919 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 919 births per million (ranked 81.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1987, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Kaia is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #179 (81.2% percentile) with 919 births per million.
For boys, Kaia reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #916) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kaia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kaia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.4% confident that Kaia is pronounced as KAI-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAH-ee-uh, at 18.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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