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Girl's name · #193 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave
Kaia reached its best rank, #180, in 2024 and ranked #193 in 2025. About 21,000 girls have carried it since 1955.
In recent years, Kaia ran about 8× its national rate in Hawaii—where it ranked #9 in 2025.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 47 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
See how Kaia ranks in other countries and regions.
#45 in New Zealand (2025) · #70 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #93 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #96 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #129 in Norway (2025) · #132 in Ireland (2025) · #200 in N. Ireland (2025) · #206 in Switzerland (2025) · #247 in Scotland (2025) · #267 in England & Wales (2025) · #305 in Poland (2025) · #392 in Netherlands (2025) and 5 more.
Among 58 notable people named Kaia:
Sports figures appear 2.08× more often than among typical names — e.g. Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player (born 1985).
Together with its spelling variants Kaiya (#994) and Kaya (#1133), Kaia would rank around #141 with about 2,100 births last year — the newborns split about 78/12/10 across Kaia, Kaiya, and Kaya.
Similar names: Kaiya · Myla · Kai · Freya · Milani · Kalani
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