Kaia

What Kaia means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Kaia yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #447 in 2015, #193 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kaia?

US: Rising: up from #447 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #794 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 1,680 girls got the name (#180 that year). First in the US records in 1955.

How common

• About 1 in 993 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,464 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,193 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (13.52 per 1,000 girls), WY (6.17 per 1,000 girls), RI (2.85 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Kaia is #193 in the US and #265 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.7% of US babies named Kaia were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Gaia157 US · 77 E&W
• Caia64 US · 7 E&W
• Kaiah52 US · 4 E&W
• Kiah43 US · 7 E&W
• Kia12 US
• Caiah0 US · 3 E&W
• Kaea0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Kaia

Girls

• Leilani#60Hawaiian, meaning “a lei; a child + heavenly, royal”^*
• Rory#230“red-haired king”^*
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025
• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records
• Alani#161Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #529 in 2015, #161 in 2025
• Selah#216“to hang”^*

For a brother

• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Malakai#213Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #491 in 2015, #213 in 2025
• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Leonardo#91Italian, from Old French Leonard, meaning “as strong as a lion”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kaia’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.