Kalaya — #2203 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kalaya

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,447 babies named Kalaya between 1987 and 2024, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kalaya currently holds the #2203 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 87 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kalaya performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 570 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kalaya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 163 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Kalaya in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kalaya 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 1,447 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.