Kaiya

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 272 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
272
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
#994
down from #856
UK popularity
#1407
22 babies

How Kaiya has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#715#897#1079201520202025#994

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#886
2016#944
2017#954
2018#922
2019#997
2020#987
2021#945
2022#907
2023#797
2024#856
2025#994

Kaiya by the numbers

In 2025, 22 babies in England and Wales were named Kaiya. In the US, 272 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 388 babies in 2002, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Kaiya

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kaiya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Kayawater296 in the US (2017)
  • Kailastylish; a variant of Kayla133 in the US (2017)
  • Kavyapoetry, poem95 in the US (2017)
  • Katyapure; a form of Catherine or Ekaterina54 in the US (2017)
  • Kaidalittle dragon4 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Kaijasea; from the word for water18 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Kaiya

Names that are said the same way as Kaiya, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Kaiya

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