Khaya

femaleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
21times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#876highest recorded position

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2000	#3912
2002	#4137
2003	#4373
2007	#5201
2011	#5785
2014	#4003
2020	#4535
2023	#4056
2025	#3705

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 10 of the 28 years from 1998 to 2025.

In 2014: #876 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4003 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1998–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3848 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #3705 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Khaya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 10 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 38 births with the name.

Khaya across 2 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.

Khaya'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	#3848 (1998)	#3705 (2025)	#3705 (2025)	10 of 28	38 (1998–2025)	6 (2025)
England and Wales · Boys	#3134 (2001)	#2403 (2013)	#4608 (2020)	10 of 20	41 (2001–2020)	8 (2013)

Khaya by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Khaya in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000sbusiest	21	6 of 10	4
2010s	17	3 of 10	6
2020s	3	1 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 4 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #876 in Republic of Ireland in 2014.

Khaya'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#3705	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	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.

Where Khaya is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Khaya, between 1998 and 2025, in 17 of those 28 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1998–2025	17	#2403 in 2013
Republic of Ireland	2014	1	#876 in 2014

No registrar recorded it for 5 years after 2014; it appears again in 2020.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

Khaya was ranked #876 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2014. 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.

Aaradhya#876
Adelaide#876
Aila#876
Ailidh#876

What is known about Khaya

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1998–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #876 in Republic of Ireland in 2014. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Khaya

Khaya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Khaya across 2 official records

Khaya by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Where Khaya is officially recorded

Names published alongside Khaya

What is known about Khaya

Khaya at a glance

Khaya across 2 official records

Khaya by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Names published alongside Khaya