Kiah

maleStatistical record

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

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

Kiah: Recorded since 1996, it reached #344 in 1999, and it stood at #3,695 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
49times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#344highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#608
1997	#545
1998	#683
1999	#605
2000	#545
2001	#593
2002	#585
2003	#630
2004	#701
2005	#668
2006	#976
2007	#793
2008	#1093
2009	#1411
2010	#1332
2011	#1903
2012	#2521
2013	#2313
2014	#1966
2015	#2705
2016	#3609
2017	#2502
2018	#2901
2019	#4001
2021	#3519
2022	#2888
2023	#5687
2024	#3695

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 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2021: #883 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3519 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 #608 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
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Kiah appears in 3 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 692 births with the name.

Kiah across 3 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.

Kiah'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	#608 (1996)	#545 (1997)	#3695 (2024)	28 of 29	692 (1996–2024)	50 (2000)
England and Wales · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#1651 (2002)	#4270 (2024)	13 of 28	54 (1997–2024)	8 (2002)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#576 (1997)	#439 (1999)	#883 (2021)	7 of 25	24 (1997–2021)	5 (2001)

Kiah 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 Kiah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	166	4 of 10	42
2000sbusiest	393	10 of 10	39
2010s	110	10 of 10	11
2020s	23	4 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 39 births a year.

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

Kiah 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: #344 in Northern Ireland in 1999.

Kiah'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	#3695	6	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3519	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1966	14	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2313	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2521	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1903	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1332	23	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1411	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1093	27	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#793	41	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#976	29	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#668	46	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#701	41	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#630	46	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1771	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#585	48	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1651	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#593	45	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#545	50	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#605	43	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#683	35	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#545	48	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#608	40	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#344	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	5	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	4	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	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 #344, first reached in 1999.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 50 births, registered in England and Wales in 2000.

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 1997, and 3 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.

Kia · #266, 28y
Kiaan · #342, 17y
Kian · #54, 41y
Kiana · #337, 29y

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.

Carlie · #344, 24y
Cathryn · #344, 26y
Uzair · #344, 30y
Catrina · #343, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Carlie · #344, 24y
Ismaeel · #344, 29y
Uzair · #344, 30y
Vinny · #344, 30y

Kiah was ranked #344 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 1999. 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.

Kiah 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 Kiah without appearing here.

Kiah moved ahead of

Donna Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4001 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3519 and #5581.
Karen Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3519 and #3192 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2888 and #4645.

Moved ahead of Kiah

Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2888 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #1959.
Janet Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2888 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2346.
Malin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2888 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2346.
Braxton Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3865 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #4647 and #1398.

Moved the opposite way to Kiah

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiah went from #608 to #3695 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiah went from #608 to #3695 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiah went from #608 to #3695 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiah went from #608 to #3695 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Kiah

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiah went from #608 to #3695 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiah went from #608 to #3695 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiah went from #608 to #3695 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kiah went from #608 to #3695 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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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: #344 in Northern Ireland in 1999. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kiah

Kiah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kiah across 3 official records

Kiah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kiah appears in

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Kiah across 3 official records

Kiah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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