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Kyah vs Kyasia

American parents have registered 3,141 Kyahs since 1880, against 805 Kyasias. Kyah is still ahead, with 59 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyah against Kyasia, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyah Kyasia

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

Of the 38 years in which either name was published, Kyah for 37 years and Kyasia for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kyah Kyasia
Total US births 3,141805
Most in one year 16556
Babies in 2025 598
Estimated living today 3,100800
Median age today 1520
Peak year 20022005
Best rank 1,218th girls2,902nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,859th10,917th
First recorded 19781991
Girls / boys 3,114 / 27805 / 0

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 Kyasias alive today are over 20; half the Kyahs are over 15. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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