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Kaia vs Kaidynce

American parents have registered 20,967 Kaias since 1880, against 448 Kaidynces. Kaia is still ahead, with 1,623 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaia against Kaidynce, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaia Kaidynce

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kaia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1955 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Kaia had 480 and Kaidynce had 44.

Side by side

  Kaia Kaidynce
Total US births 20,967448
Most in one year 1,68044
Babies in 2025 1,6235
Estimated living today 21,000450
Median age today 713
Peak year 20242011
Best rank 180th girls3,916th girls
Rank in 2025 193rd14,942nd
First recorded 19552004
Girls / boys 20,909 / 58430 / 18

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kaidynces alive today are over 13; half the Kaias are over 7. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kaia and Kaidynce.