Kya

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Kya: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #459 in 2013, and it stood at #483 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#459highest recorded position
10groupings 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	#1364
1997	#1802
1998	#1392
1999	#1216
2000	#1058
2001	#671
2002	#603
2003	#759
2004	#722
2005	#802
2006	#739
2007	#836
2008	#878
2009	#1022
2010	#1093
2011	#1545
2012	#1387
2013	#1433
2014	#1299
2015	#1865
2016	#1571
2017	#2090
2018	#2901
2019	#1940
2020	#3899
2021	#3519
2022	#2058
2023	#2504
2024	#1743

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #556 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #638 among girls in Scotland, #1743 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1364 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 recorded2008–2025
Highest recorded position: #459 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2013 (recorded 2008–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #483 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Kya appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 652 births with the name.

Kya 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.

Kya'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	#1364 (1996)	#603 (2002)	#1743 (2024)	29 of 29	652 (1996–2024)	46 (2002)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#862 (2008)	#459 (2013)	#483 (2025)	8 of 18	42 (2008–2025)	9 (2013)
England and Wales · Boys	#2220 (2001)	#1519 (2002)	#4647 (2011)	7 of 11	33 (2001–2011)	9 (2002)

Kya 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 Kya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	51	4 of 10	13
2000sbusiest	361	10 of 10	36
2010s	189	10 of 10	19
2020s	51	5 of 10	10

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 36 births a year.

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

Kya 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 2025. Highest recorded position: #459 in Republic of Ireland in 2013.

Kya'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	#1743	17	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3519	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1940	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1571	20	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1865	15	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1299	25	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1433	22	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1387	23	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1545	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1093	30	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1022	31	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#878	37	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#836	38	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#739	42	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#802	35	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#722	39	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#759	36	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#603	46	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1519	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#671	38	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1058	19	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1216	16	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1392	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1802	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1364	13	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#556	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#459	9	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

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

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 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #459, first reached in 2013.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 46 births, registered in England and Wales in 2002.

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.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 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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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.

Bibi · #461, 29y
Cyrus · #462, 30y
Jannah · #463, 30y
Anderson · #451, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Blaise · #459, 30y
Sayed · #459, 29y
Haya · #460, 28y
Humaira · #460, 29y

Kya was ranked #459 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2013. 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.

Kya 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 Kya without appearing here.

Kya moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2901 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1940 and #5591.
Karen Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3519 and #3192 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2058 and #4645.
Katrina Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #2504 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1743 and #4192.
Levi Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #3899 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3519 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Kya

Ole Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3385 and #4052 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #4647 and #2039.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1940 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #1313.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1940 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #1939.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2090 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2901 and #1436.

Moved the opposite way to Kya

Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kya went from #1216 to #1743 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kya went from #1216 to #1743 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.
Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kya went from #671 to #1743 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kya went from #722 to #1743 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.

Moved the same way as Kya

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Kya went from #1364 to #2504 and Kristin from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Kya went from #1364 to #2504 and Therese from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Kya went from #1364 to #2504 and Tracey from #783 to #5687.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Kya went from #1364 to #3519 and Carol from #802 to #3519.

What's not yet available

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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 2025. Highest recorded position: #459 in Republic of Ireland in 2013. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kya

Kya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kya across 3 official records

Kya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kya appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Kya at a glance

Kya across 3 official records

Kya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kya appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kya

Kya and the names beside it

Kya moved ahead of

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