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Kaia vs Kaiser

American parents have registered 20,967 Kaias since 1880, against 3,955 Kaisers. Kaia is still ahead, with 1,623 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kaia Kaiser

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 78 years in which either name was published, Kaia for 64 years and Kaiser for 14 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Kaia Kaiser
Total US births 20,9673,955
Most in one year 1,680350
Babies in 2025 1,623296
Estimated living today 21,0003,800
Median age today 76
Peak year 20242022
Best rank 180th girls749th boys
Rank in 2025 193rd835th
First recorded 19551915
Girls / boys 20,909 / 5834 / 3,921

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kaia Kaiser
England and Wales 1,716428
Ireland 2678
France 140 Kaïa20
Scotland 1334
Northern Ireland 713

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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