Caiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KY-a
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Caiya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
Where does Caiya come from?
Modern: spelling of Kaiya, itself a variant of Kaia or Kaya
Meaning borrowed from Kaiya. More on Wiktionary.
Is Caiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Caiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Caiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 28% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Caiya, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,001st. Its busiest year was 2018, with 25 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had fewer girls named Caiya than any year since 2015.
Half of all the girls named Caiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Caiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,612 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,979 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,962 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,001 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,148 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,398 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,725 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,267 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,063 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,729 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,234 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,823 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,571 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,124 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,062 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,798 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
Names like Caiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zayla Kaliyah Zaniyah Safa Zariah Jaliyah Salem Zya Aaliyah Amoura Ayla Zaiya
Names related to Caiya
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Caiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/caiya, updated 20 October 2026.