Kyah

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kyah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 137K(measured from records)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 95K
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 870K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,435 people, 2020

Sources
152 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 95K (inferred from the name graph)

Australia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kyah 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.

Where Kyah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,4351 in 137K2.4KKyah152
AU Australia≈270 est.≈1 in 95K4Kyah73
GB United Kingdom≈61 est.≈1 in 1.1M3Kyah62
PH Philippines≈38 est.≈1 in 2.9M—Kyah10
NL Netherlands191 in 909K19Kyah5
NZ New Zealand≈6 est.≈1 in 870K14Kyah10

2,435 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kyah is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kyāh, Kyãh

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kyah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In yur, spring(time)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In omq-sjq, tomorrow

    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)

InformalHi Kyah,

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)

Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Kyah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.4K#6,555
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2002165—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2007144—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2004134—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2001134—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2016132—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2012129—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2006124—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2003123—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2017121—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2019120—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2018116—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Kyah?
A machine transcription gives /kiə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Kyah a male or female name?
Kyah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Kyah have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Kyah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kyah.
How common is the name Kyah?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,435 people named Kyah in 2020, about 1 in 137 thousand residents.

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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, “Kyah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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