Kahlia
Kahlia was given to 47 girls in 2025, #3,317 among girls’ names; 1,334 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,320 Americans named Kahlia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kahlia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kahlia?
#3,317 among girls’ names, 2025
Kahlia rose from #3,560 in 2015 to #3,317 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 24.6 to 29.2 per million.
66 babies in 2020, the peak
Kahlia peaked in 2020, when 66 girls were given it, #2,584 among girls’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #3,317 | 29.2 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,426 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,683 | 40.5 |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,000 | 22.6 |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,736 | 38.4 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,584 | 40.8 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,111 | 31.0 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,942 | 32.9 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,413 | 26.6 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,490 | 25.4 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,560 | 24.6 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,456 | 25.8 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,038 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,398 | 27.3 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,110 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,065 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,231 | 19.6 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,225 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,356 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,284 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,659 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,942 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,681 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,342 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,119 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,389 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,319 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,460 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,720 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,372 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,268 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,845 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,328 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,821 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,716 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,652 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,317 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,842 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,739 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,818 | 5.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,533 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,104 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,710 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,089 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,401 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,009 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,921 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kahlia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kahlia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kahlia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kahlia, and how old are they?
1,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,334 Americans ever recorded as Kahlia. The median Kahlia alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 871 people named Kahlia (851 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,017 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 166 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 483 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 646 |
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 Kahlia born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,307 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,315 | 0.7× |
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 Kahlia 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 Kahlia?
Kahlia is a less common spelling of Kaliyah: SSA has recorded 1,334 Kahlia and 12,951 Kaliyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 451,979 babies since 1880, Kahlia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 3,173 babies (1.5%), the seventh 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 Kahlia
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 Kahlia and names like it
- Compare Kahlia and KaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKahlia peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kahlia since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Kahlia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kahlia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.