Girl name#920 of girl names
Kaia
Pronounced K AA1 IY1 AH0 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 2024
- 70 years in use
How popular is Kaia?
Kaia is a girls' name, and first appears in 1955. It has been given to 20,485 children — the 920th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2024, when 1,769 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- K AA1 IY1 AH0
- Stress pattern:
- 110
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Kaia
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Kaia
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Kaia?
- Kaia ranks 920th among girls' names in US records, with 20,485 births since 1955. Over the past decade it accounts for 12,448.
- Is Kaia a unisex name?
- No. Kaia is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Kaia most popular?
- 2024, when 1,769 children were given the name. It has been in use for 70 years and is still recorded as of 2024.