Kaiah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kaiah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kaiah: Recorded since 1999, it reached #751 in 2015, and it stood at #4,843 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#751highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2008	#4524
2009	#5556
2010	#4688
2012	#5876
2014	#4684
2016	#4096
2018	#4684
2021	#4634
2022	#3533
2024	#4843

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 11 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1999–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #3900 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Kaiah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kaiah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	7	2 of 10	4
2010sbusiest	20	5 of 10	4
2020s	14	3 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 4 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kaiah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #751 in Republic of Ireland in 2015.

Kaiah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1999 and 2024, ranked in 12 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #751, first reached in 2015.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 6 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 16 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
3 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
7separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
8 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#4,843position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
16 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 11 to 20 years →
6births registered in its largest year, 2022Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Rori · #751, 14y
Akvile · #752, 10y
Caelyn · #750, 13y
Elisabeta · #750, 17y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Adnaan · #751, 27y
Annalee · #751, 20y
Kaleem · #751, 29y
Molly-may · #751, 28y

Kaiah was ranked #751 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2015. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kaiah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kaiah without appearing here.

Kaiah moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4684 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3533 and #5669.
Debra Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4684 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3533 and #5669.
Donna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3533 and #5669.
Josefine Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4096 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3533 and #5669.

Moved ahead of Kaiah

Fiadh Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4684 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #2757.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #751 in Republic of Ireland in 2015. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kaiah

Kaiah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kaiah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kaiah appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kaiah

Kaiah and the names beside it

Kaiah moved ahead of

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Kaiah at a glance

Kaiah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kaiah appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kaiah

Kaiah and the names beside it

Kaiah moved ahead of

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