Kaida
Feminine
Kaida is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 692 girls against 12 boys since 1880.
Kaida is a recent name whose meaning is worth being careful about. The gloss usually offered online is not supported by Japanese, and the honest answer is shorter and more interesting.
How old is the name Kaida?
Kaida first appears in US birth records in 2002 — 23 years ago. The typical Kaida is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Kaida are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kaida most popular?
Kaida peaked in 2024, reaching #2533 nationally. Today it ranks #3342, 809 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kaida
Ours, offered plainly as ours. Kaida sits on top of one of the most widely shared syllables in modern naming. Kai is a real name in Japanese, in Hawaiian, in Frisian and in Chinese, arrived at independently in each — which is genuinely unusual and worth more than an invented dragon. Add a light ending and you have a name that reads naturally in several languages at once. The meaning offered for it online is wrong, and the truth about its first syllable is better.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The little dragon reading circulated in name lists is not supported: the Japanese words involved do not combine that way. What is documented is the sound — Kai is a genuine name in Japanese, Hawaiian and Frisian alike — and the -da ending common in modern American naming. Arabic qaida, a base or a foundation, is a separate word.
Pronouncing Kaida
KY-dah
Two syllables, first stressed. Some families say KAY-dah.
Nicknames for Kaida
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2002
- Most girls named
- 202470 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2533reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −34.3%46 in 2025, from 70
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kaida in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kai in Japanese — related form
- Kai in Hawaiian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Kaidas among us
people named Kaida are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 34,941 born in 2025 was named Kaida
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kaida
- #3342
- Kaida on the 2025 chart
- #899
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kaida went to 46 girls in 2025, but Kayda is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 61, which makes it the 899th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,443 places above the chart.
- Kaida46
- Kayda15
About 1 girl in 26,349 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 34,941 for Kaida itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Alexanderia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kaida's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alexanderia climbed just as high around 1993, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alexanderia's path sketches the road Kaida is walking now.
Kaida sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kaida is headed
Kaida is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 74% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kaida beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kaida in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kai is a complete short form with real standing in several languages.
- Five letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- The dragon meaning circulated online is not supported, and it is worth knowing that first.
- The first vowel is unsettled between KY and KAY.
- Kaida, Kayda and Kaidah all appear and none is dominant.
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Feminine · #3342 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Kaidas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Kaida are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kaida?
- Kaida is the most-used spelling in US records — 46 of the 61 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kayda.
- How popular is the name Kaida in 2025?
- Kaida ranks #3342 among US girl names in 2025, with 46 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kaida?
- About 1 in every 34,941 US girls born in 2025 was named Kaida — 46 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kaida with classmates?
- Kaida will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Kaida
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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