Kaya is originally a masculine Turkish name meaning ‘rock’ or ‘cliff’. However, in English-speaking countries it is mainly given to girls. This is probably influenced by Kaia, a Scandinavian nickname for Katarina.
Kaya is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Kaya isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Kaya ranks 866. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Kaya. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kaya.
Kaya is originally a masculine Turkish name meaning ‘rock’ or ‘cliff’. However, in English-speaking countries it is mainly given to girls. This is probably influenced by Kaia, a Scandinavian nickname for Katarina.
Today, the name Kaya can... be found all over the world, including Brazil, South Africa, Australia and Japan.
Kaya is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Kaya cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #476 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2002. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Kaya, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Kaya seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kaya was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
265 babies were named Kaya in 2022 - that's 1 in 590,565 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Kaya ranked 896 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Kaya is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kaya and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kaya, you can simply say:
Koala
Apple
Yoyo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kaya
Kaya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
A
Y
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
K
A
Y
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kaya sounds like this:
