Girls' name · since 2008
Kalaiyah
121 babies named Kalaiyah in U.S. Social Security records since 2008, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #25,032 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #7,795 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 121
- born since 2008
- 2020s
- peak decade
121 babies have been named Kalaiyah since 2008, making it today's #7795 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kalaiyah has been recorded 121 times among girls since 2008, currently ranked #7795 nationally and more common than 55% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2008 to 2025.
- #25,032 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #7,795 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 121 born since 2008
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kalaiyah ranks #25,032 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #7,795 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 121 born since 2008, peaking in the 2020s.
- #25,032 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #7,795 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 121
- born since 2008
- 2020s
- peak decade
Kalaiyah's 121 recorded births place it above 65.34% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Kalaiyah compares
121 28th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Kalaiyah's all-time total is 68% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Kalaiyah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 121 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 15 | 21 | 19,840 |
Kalaiyah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Kalaiyah's full recorded timeline at 2019, 68% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 32% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2008, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2021 peak of 15 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Kalaiyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 18 years of records
Kalaiyah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (77 births, 64% of the file).
2020s was Kalaiyah's strongest decade.
77 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 64% of all-time use.
Kalaiyah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2010s
2010s
39 births
- 2020s
2020s
77 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 77 births (64% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Kalaiyah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2021)
Similar record span (~17 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2008–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kalaiyah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.