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Boy's name · #269 in the US (2025) · Trending
90% boys · 10% girls — Koa is also given to girls: 132 in 2025, about 10% in recent years. Koa →
Koa is moving up the charts. First recorded in 1978, it stood at #269 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet; about 7,700 boys have been named Koa along the way.
In recent years, Koa ran about 8× its national rate in Hawaii—where it ranked #30 in 2025.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 42 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
See how Koa ranks in other countries and regions.
#33 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #50 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #52 in New Zealand (2025) · #131 in N. Ireland (2025) · #155 in Scotland (2025) · #199 in England & Wales (2025) · #299 in Ireland (2025) · #760 in Switzerland (2025) · #974 in Netherlands (2025) · #439 in Canada (2024).
Together with its spelling variant Koah (#912), Koa would rank around #230 with about 1,500 births last year — the newborns split about 83/17 between Koa and Koah.
Similar names: Makai · Koda · Makoa · Kaleo · Nakoa · Kekoa
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