Kaileah — #9247 US girls' name
374 babies named Kaileah in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 48% of names given to girls today.
47% of everyone ever named Kaileah was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Kaileah in 2015 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kaileah
The Social Security Administration has registered 374 babies named Kaileah between 1999 and 2024, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaileah currently holds the #9247 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaileah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 176 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kaileah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kaileah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kaileah 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 374 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.
Kaileah at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Kaileah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1999
- Peak year (2015)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 26 years of records
Currently ranks #9247 among girls.
374 total births across 26 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2015 with 21 births in a single year.
Kaileah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 176 births that decade — 47% of Kaileah's all-time total
Kaileah decade highlights
- Peak decade 176 births
- Runner-up 106 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Kaileah's strongest decade
176 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
Kaileah by state
Where Kaileah concentrates geographically — total births since 1999
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 32 | 8.6% |
32 of 374 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 8.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 8.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1999–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.