Kimaya
Feminine · “miracle”
Kimaya is a Marathi and Hindi word for something wonderful or miraculous — it comes, by a long road, from the same word that gives English alchemy and chemistry.
How old is the name Kimaya?
Kimaya first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Kimaya alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,100 people named Kimaya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kimaya most popular?
Kimaya peaked in 2009, reaching #2672 nationally. Today it ranks #3832, 1,160 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
From kimiya to Kimaya
The story of Kimaya
Kimiya was the Arabic and Persian word for alchemy, taken from Greek, and it carried into Urdu, Hindi and Marathi with an extended sense: something that works a transformation, hence a marvel. Its use as a personal name is modern and belongs particularly to Maharashtra. It reaches American records with Indian families in the last few decades.
Meaningscholars disagree
miracle, wonder
Kimaya in Marathi and Hindi means a miracle or marvel and is borrowed from Persian and Arabic kimiya, alchemy — the same word English took as alchemy through Arabic al-kimiya. A separate reading as divine, from Sanskrit, circulates without support.
How the name formed
- kimiya
- Kimaya
Related forms: Kimaya · Kimiya · Kimiya
Pronouncing Kimaya
kih-MY-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families say KEE-mah-yah.
Nicknames for Kimaya
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
- 1988
- Most girls named
- 200968 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2672reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- +15.2%38 in 2025, from 33
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.
Kimaya in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kimaya in Marathi — same name
- Kimiya in Persian — related form
- Kimiya in Arabic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Georgia, Texas.
Kimayas among us
people named Kimaya are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 42,297 born in 2025 was named Kimaya
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sakina test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kimaya's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sakina climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sakina's path sketches the road Kimaya is walking now.
Kimaya 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 Kimaya is headed
Kimaya should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Kimaya beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kimaya in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kim and Maya are both complete names in their own right.
- The word's journey from Greek to Arabic to Marathi is genuinely remarkable.
- Six letters and three syllables, manageable to write.
- The reading as divine, from Sanskrit, is repeated in name lists and is not supported.
- The stress is unsettled between the first and second syllables.
- It is close to Kimora and Kamaya in an American ear.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kimayas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Kimaya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kimaya in 2025?
- Kimaya ranks #3832 among US girl names in 2025, with 38 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kimaya?
- About 1 in every 42,297 US girls born in 2025 was named Kimaya — 38 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kimaya with classmates?
- Kimaya will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Kimaya
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