Kalah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kalah

The Social Security Administration has registered 778 babies named Kalah between 1976 and 2014, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kalah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 54 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kalah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 389 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kalah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 24 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Kalah in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kalah 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 778 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.