Kaiya

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Kaiya: Recorded since 1996, it reached #383 in 2012, and it stood at #556 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
54times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#383highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1646
1997	#1365
1999	#1393
2000	#1688
2001	#1170
2002	#809
2003	#996
2004	#1252
2005	#824
2006	#770
2007	#1160
2008	#899
2009	#982
2010	#623
2011	#830
2012	#975
2013	#1148
2014	#1341
2015	#1057
2016	#1472
2017	#1411
2018	#778
2019	#1497
2020	#1238
2021	#1102
2022	#1416
2023	#962
2024	#1007

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #556 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1007 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1646 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2012–2017
Highest recorded position: #383 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2012 (recorded 2012–2017).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1007 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Kaiya appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 795 births with the name.

Kaiya across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kaiya's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1646 (1996)	#623 (2010)	#1007 (2024)	28 of 29	795 (1996–2024)	61 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#764 (2006)	#445 (2023)	#556 (2024)	16 of 19	89 (2006–2024)	8 (2023)
England and Wales · Boys	#2254 (2002)	#2189 (2003)	#3937 (2019)	8 of 18	32 (2002–2019)	6 (2003)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#383 (2012)	#383 (2012)	#432 (2017)	2 of 6	7 (2012–2017)	4 (2012)

Kaiya 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 Kaiya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	36	3 of 10	12
2000s	266	10 of 10	27
2010sbusiest	343	10 of 10	34
2020s	150	5 of 10	30

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 34 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2018 and 2019, when recorded births fell by 29, from 49 to 20.

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

Kaiya 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #383 in Northern Ireland in 2012.

Kaiya'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	#1007	35	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#962	36	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1416	22	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1102	31	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1238	26	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1497	20	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#778	49	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1411	23	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1472	22	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1341	24	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1148	30	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#975	37	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#830	44	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#623	61	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#982	33	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#899	36	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1160	24	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#770	40	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#824	34	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1252	18	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#996	24	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#809	30	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1170	17	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1688	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1393	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1365	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1646	10	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#383	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#556	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#445	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	7	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	7	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#568	6	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#524	7	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	7	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#532	7	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#593	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #383, first reached in 2012.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 61 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2006, 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.

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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Kaius · #631, 22y
Kaiyah · #2201, 17y
Kaiyan · #1071, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Layan · #383, 23y
Mahnoor · #383, 30y
Safiya · #383, 29y
Ashlyn · #384, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Henna · #383, 27y
Mahnoor · #383, 30y
Safiya · #383, 29y
Ashlyn · #384, 29y

Kaiya was ranked #383 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2012. 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.

Kaiya 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 Kaiya without appearing here.

Kaiya moved ahead of

Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1416 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #962 and #2689.
Geraldine Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1170 and #1170 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #809 and #2301.
Jenny Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1238 and #1100 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1102 and #2499.
Janice Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1646 and #1364 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1365 and #2738.

Moved ahead of Kaiya

Isak Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2189 and #3467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #4333 and #1440.
Henrik Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2189 and #2470 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #4333 and #1885.
Hans Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2254 and #2636 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #2189 and #1410.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1057 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1472 and #768.

Moved the opposite way to Kaiya

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaiya went from #1646 to #962 while Kristin went from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaiya went from #1646 to #962 while Therese went from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaiya went from #1646 to #962 while Tracey went from #783 to #5687.
Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaiya went from #1688 to #1007 while Hayden went from #3912 to #5891.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #383 in Northern Ireland in 2012. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kaiya

Kaiya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kaiya across 4 official records

Kaiya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kaiya appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kaiya

Kaiya and the names beside it

Kaiya moved ahead of

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Kaiya at a glance

Kaiya across 4 official records

Kaiya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kaiya 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 Kaiya

Kaiya and the names beside it

Kaiya moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kaiya

Moved the opposite way to Kaiya