Fun Facts About the Name Kida
- 166 babies named Kida: U.S. records list 166 babies given the name Kida from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Kida Mean?
Kida has no single established meaning as a personal name. Its clearest documented life is as a Japanese family name, where the sound Kida is written with more than one set of kanji, and the sense changes with the characters used. 木田 combines ki (tree) with ta, voiced here as da (rice field), giving something like "tree field." 貴田 combines ki (precious, noble) with the same rice-field element, giving "noble rice field." Spellings such as 喜田 (joy + rice field) also exist, so a single translation does not cover every family that writes the name this way.
Where Kida is used as a first name, no reliable reference ties it to a specific word, so its meaning is best described as uncertain rather than as one of the Japanese surname translations.
Kida Name History & Origins
Kida is an established Japanese surname. Family names of this shape generally come from place names or from descriptive and auspicious characters, and one pronunciation can be written several ways, which is why the kanji differ from family to family. Japanese surnames became universal only after the government required all households to register one in the 1870s, during the Meiji period; many families then took names based on their locality or on favorable characters.
As a given name, Kida is uncommon in English-speaking countries, and no documented line connects the occasional first name to the Japanese surname. Its appearance in the 2001 animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire, in which the character Kidagakash is called Kida, is a modern fictional use and does not explain where the name comes from.
How Popular is the Name Kida?
Kida has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2020. Its best rank was #6,785 in 2020.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #9,183 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2024 | #8,169 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2023 | #9,966 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2022 | #7,133 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2021 | #8,274 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2020 | #6,785 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 2019 | #10,940 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2018 | #9,498 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2017 | #7,655 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2015 | #11,414 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2013 | #15,628 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #16,037 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2005 | #17,911 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2004 | #10,318 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2003 | #10,079 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2002 | #16,852 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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