girls:
6k births since 1970
#2156 (62nd percentile)
boys:
13 births since 2001
#4573 (0th percentile)
overall:
6k births since 1970
#3510 (55th percentile)
The name Kya is the #3,510 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,966 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 54.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,156 (62.3% percentile) for all time with 5,953 births since 1970. For boys, it ranks #4,573 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 2001.
Kya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 2001 for boys). Birth data for Kya is available in 50 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (50 years for girls and 1 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 Kya has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kya reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 37.9% percentile (ranked #582) with 189 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 192 births per million (ranked 33.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Kya is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #629 (33.6% percentile) with 192 births per million.
For boys, Kya reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #817) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 6 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kya".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kya is pronounced as KAI-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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