Kiah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 58 babies a year in the US.
Kiah by the numbers
In 2025, 7 babies in England and Wales were named Kiah. In the US, 58 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 148 babies in 2002, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Kiah
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 Kiah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Kiah
Names that are said the same way as Kiah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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