Baby name
RISING
🇩🇪 🇹🇷 🇺🇸 Kaya
/KAH · yah/
Meaning
“Elder sister”
Turkish for 'rock' or 'cliff', and a Native American name meaning 'elder sister' in Hopi; used across Turkey, Germany, and increasingly in the West as a nature name.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
strongwarmplayful
How it ages.
Grounded and multicultural; one of the rare names that works across very different traditions.
The cultural moment.
Rising in Germany and the United States since the 2010s; long established in Turkey.