Kiaya
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/kiaja/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Kiaya is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country: 28 people, counted by RENAPER. Kiaya is also written เกียยะ in Thai.
- ARArgentina1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 3.4Mfew recordsas เกียยะ
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kiaya itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6M (inferred from the name graph)
28 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kiaya in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled เกียยะ in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Kiaya
- Swahili:/kiaja/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Kiaya is found
(measured from records)Kiaya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 28 | 1 in 1.6M | 28 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | register #852,559 | เกียยะ | 12 |
| US United States | — | — | 713 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 9 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 4 | — | — |
28 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kiaya is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, imperative of kiay
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kiaya?
- In Swahili /kiaja/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Kiaya a male or female name?
- Kiaya is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kiaya?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 28 people named Kiaya, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Thailand; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kiaya most common?
- Kiaya is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kiaya?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 28 people named Kiaya, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kiaya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kiayaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kiaya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.