Kaelah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kaelah

The Social Security Administration has registered 550 babies named Kaelah between 1985 and 2020, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaelah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 38 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaelah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 240 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kaelah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 50 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaelah in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaelah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 550 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.