Kia is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Kia in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Kia in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Kia by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Kia ranks at #5,817. That means there are 5,816 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kia.
Kia is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Kia - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 592 in 1983. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Kia really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
26 babies were named Kia in 2022 - that's 1 in 7,058,662 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Kia ranked 4,420 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 only three letters, the name Kia is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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 Kia 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 Kia, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kia
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
I
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
I
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. Kia sounds like this:
