Kiowa
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KY-o-wa
- Origin
- Native American
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Kiowa is a boys' name of Native American origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Kiowa mean?
Native American: name of a Plains people
The Kiowa are a Native American people of the Southern Plains, now centred in Oklahoma.
Is Kiowa a girl's or a boy's name?
Kiowa is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kiowa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,690th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Kiowa, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 1995, with 18 boys. It first appears in the records in 1972.
Half of all the boys named Kiowa in the US since 1880 were born between 1995 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kiowa in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,794 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,691 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,859 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,864 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,144 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,886 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,449 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,524 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,104 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,871 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,553 |
| 1994 | 7 | #6,962 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,221 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,120 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,194 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,234 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,620 |
Names like Kiowa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kobe, Omari, Om, Kwame, Obi, Ayomide, Nikola, Tadeo, Dakota, Koda, Atom, Kamari
More Native American names
Tallulah, Nayeli, Winona, Kenai, Cree, Xochitl, Xitlali, Citlali, Alaska, Talulah, Sequoia, Denali, Tennessee, Dakoda, Lakota, Wynonna
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, “Kiowa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kiowa, updated 20 October 2026.