girls:
4k births since 1970
#2723 (52nd percentile)
boys:
23 births since 1999
#4563 (0th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1970
#4313 (44th percentile)
The name Kiya is the #4,313 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,043 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 44.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,723 (52.4% percentile) for all time with 4,020 births since 1970. For boys, it ranks #4,563 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 1999.
Kiya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 1999 for boys).
The name Kiya has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kiya reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 25.2% percentile (ranked #669) with 117 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 117 births per million (ranked 25.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kiya ranks #882 for girls (6.9% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 34.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kiya reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #818) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kiya".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kiya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kiya is pronounced as KEE-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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