girls:
3k births since 1978
#3182 (44th percentile)
boys:
27 births since 2001
#4559 (1st percentile)
overall:
3k births since 1978
#4955 (36th percentile)
The name Kyah is the #4,955 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,999 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 36.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,182 (44.3% percentile) for all time with 2,972 births since 1978. For boys, it ranks #4,559 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 2001.
Kyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (1978 for girls and 2001 for boys). Birth data for Kyah is available in 36 out of the 46 years between 1978 and 2023 (36 years for girls and 3 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 Kyah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kyah reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 17.9% percentile (ranked #734) with 84 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 84 births per million (ranked 17.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kyah ranks #858 for girls (9.4% percentile) with 54 births per million, which is 64.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kyah 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 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kyah".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.3% confident that Kyah is pronounced as KAI-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kyah, at 16.7% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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