Kayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KY-a
- Origin
- Turkish
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #5,553 for girls
Kayah is a girls' name of Turkish origin, meaning “rock”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).
What does Kayah mean?
Turkish: spelling of Kaya; Turkish word; also an unrelated Japanese name
“rock”
Turkish word for rock, used as a boys' name in Turkey; it also occurs independently as a Japanese name.
Meaning borrowed from Kaya.
Is Kayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Kayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kayah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,276among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 31% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Kayah, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,274th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 11 girls.
Half of all the girls named Kayah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 343 girls in the UK were given Kayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #185, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Kayah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 7 | #3,274 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 11 | #2,458 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,809 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 9 | #2,887 |
| 2011 | 8 | #3,041 |
| 2010 | 10 | #2,540 |
| 2009 | 11 | #2,298 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 7 | #3,060 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
How popular is Kayah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,553among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 22about 1 in 73,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 13% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Kayah, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 30 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
2025 had more girls named Kayah than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Kayah in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,618 girls in the US were given Kayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #128, up from #5,553 for this spelling alone.
Kayah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,553 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,979 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 20 | #5,982 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,781 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,620 |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,583 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,396 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,541 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,901 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,541 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,806 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,590 |
| 2005 | 20 | #5,994 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,484 |
| 2003 | 13 | #7,993 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,124 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,559 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,216 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
Names like Kayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah Safa Zainab Aaliyah Hafsa Hiba Sumayyah Nusaybah Summer Ruqayyah Rahma Safaa
Other spellings of Kayah
Names related to Kayah
More Turkish names
Ayla Aylin Alara Ayda Orhan Ayzel Aydin Aslan Eren Evren Ayaz Ela Aylah Aleyna Deniz Demir
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Kayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kayah, updated 20 October 2026.