Kia
Pronounced K EY1 W AY1 AY1 AO1 R (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 1993
- 69 years in use
- 4 spellings
How popular is Kia?
Kia is a girls' name, and first appears in 1956. It has been given to 8,413 children — the 1,600th most common girls' name on record.
It is still recorded, but barely: 462 births across the past decade, against a peak of 349 in a single year. That peak was in 1993.
Four other spellings are counted in that total — Kyier, Kior, Kyior and one more — because they are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Kia and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Kyier
- Kior
- Kyior
- Kiare
Characteristics
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- K EY1 W AY1 AY1 AO1 R · K EY1 W AY1 AY1 ER0 · K IY1 AA1 R · K IY1 AO1 R · K IY1 ER0
- Stress pattern:
- 1111 · 1110 · 11 · 11 · 10
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Kia
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Kia
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Kia?
- Kia ranks 1,600th among girls' names in US records, with 8,413 births since 1956. Over the past decade it accounts for 462.
- Is Kia a unisex name?
- No. Kia is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Kia most popular?
- 1993, when 349 children were given the name. It has been in use for 69 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Kia spelled?
- Kyier, Kior, Kyior, Kiare. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.