Kalaya
Kalaya was given to 109 girls in 2025, #1,837 among girls’ names; 1,559 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,550 Americans named Kalaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalaya?
#1,837 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalaya rose from #3,234 in 2015 to #1,837 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 28.6 to 67.8 per million.
109 babies in 2025, the peak
Kalaya peaked in 2025, when 109 girls were given it, #1,837 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 88 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 109 | #1,837 | 67.8 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,164 | 54.3 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,535 | 43.6 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,711 | 39.0 |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,299 | 48.8 |
| 2020 | 87 | #2,111 | 53.8 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,521 | 41.7 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,027 | 31.7 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,914 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,923 | 32.7 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,234 | 28.6 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,865 | 33.6 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,671 | 37.6 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,845 | 34.6 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,157 | 30.1 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,775 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,055 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,907 | 32.3 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,075 | 29.6 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,648 | 22.6 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,635 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,854 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,837 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,922 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,056 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,589 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,654 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,571 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,475 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,556 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,411 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,847 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,528 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,358 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,189 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,971 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,446 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalaya, and how old are they?
1,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,559 Americans ever recorded as Kalaya. The median Kalaya alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 934 people named Kalaya (928 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,075 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 63 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 575 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 909 |
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 Kalaya born?
The states with the most babies named Kalaya are North Carolina, California and Florida, with 51% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,015 | 1.1× |
| California | 8 | #2,383 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,610 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,056 | 0.1× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,099 | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,657 | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #797 | 0.2× |
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 Kalaya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 49,339 babies since 1880, Kalaya is the sixth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 109 of their 1,496 babies (7.3%), the fifth 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 Kalaya
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 Kalaya and names like it
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kalaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kalaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
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