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How popular is the name Kaya?
Births per year, rank history and how many Kayas are alive today.
Kaya (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 792nd in 2025 with 46 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2010, when 100 babies were given the name, the 425th most popular that year. It has declined since 2010; the 2025 figure is roughly 46% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. Kaya is one spelling of a name also recorded as Caia; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Kaya you are most likely to meet is around 12 years old - or else around 31: the name has two living generations. Half of all Kayas born in England and Wales are between 9 and 28, and there are at least 2,700 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Kaya - on average, only one in every 117 such rooms contains a Kaya.
How many babies are named Kaya each year?
Includes all spellings: Kaya, Caia. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Kaya spelling rank?
Where does the Caia spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Kaya most popular?
Kaya peaked in 2015, when 108 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Kaya?
At least 2,700 people named Kaya in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Kaya?
Most living Kayas are between 9 and 28; the most common age is about 12. There is a second cluster around 31.
Is Kaya becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2015 peak.