Calia
Calia was given to 167 girls in 2025, #1,335 among girls’ names; 1,259 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Calia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Calia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Calia?
#1,335 among girls’ names, 2025
Calia rose from #3,220 in 2015 to #1,335 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.03 to 0.10 per 1,000.
167 babies in 2025, the peak
Calia peaked in 2025, when 167 girls were given it, #1,335 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 65 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 167 | #1,335 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,673 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,735 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,725 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,167 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,664 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,605 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,445 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,256 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,067 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,220 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,789 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,794 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,325 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,267 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,832 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,466 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,913 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,229 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,206 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 26 | #4,977 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,009 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,354 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,949 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,850 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,545 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,546 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,681 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,039 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,245 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,701 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,733 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,770 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Calia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Calia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Calia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Calia, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,259 Americans ever recorded as Calia. The median Calia alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 769 people named Calia (769 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 797 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 35 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 401 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 813 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Calia born?
The states with the most babies named Calia are California, Florida and Texas, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,330 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 18 | #872 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,416 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 12 | #759 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 10 | #898 | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 6 | #734 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,304 | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 6 | #707 | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | #2,150 | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #902 | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Calia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Calia?
Calia is a less common spelling of Kaliyah: SSA has recorded 1,259 Calia and 12,951 Kaliyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 166,715 babies since 1880, Calia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 167 of their 4,486 babies (3.7%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Calia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Calia and names like it
- Compare Calia and KaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCalia peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Calia since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Calia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Calia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.