Kalea
Kalea was given to 185 girls in 2025, #1,224 among girls’ names; 4,646 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,600 Americans named Kalea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalea?
#1,224 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalea rose from #1,516 in 2015 to #1,224 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.08 to 0.12 per 1,000.
187 babies in 2004, the peak
Kalea peaked in 2004, when 187 girls were given it, #1,198 among girls’ names. The 185 births of 2025 are 99% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 185 | #1,224 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 167 | #1,365 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 158 | #1,418 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 164 | #1,398 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,659 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,402 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 161 | #1,398 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 142 | #1,538 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 160 | #1,427 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 163 | #1,421 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 149 | #1,516 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 149 | #1,499 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 158 | #1,433 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 171 | #1,368 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 170 | #1,357 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 168 | #1,382 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 166 | #1,416 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 183 | #1,341 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 178 | #1,362 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 178 | #1,320 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 167 | #1,322 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 187 | #1,198 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 132 | #1,479 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 113 | #1,636 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 104 | #1,730 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 81 | #2,037 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 78 | #2,003 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,170 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 57 | #2,343 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,293 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,711 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,766 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,848 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,293 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,570 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,390 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,739 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,152 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,559 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,617 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,893 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,586 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,609 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,138 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,045 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,099 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,478 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,252 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,896 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalea, and how old are they?
4,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,646 Americans ever recorded as Kalea. The median Kalea alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 3,328 people named Kalea (3,300 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,697 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 374 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,030 |
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 Kalea born?
The states with the most babies named Kalea are California, Florida and Hawaii, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Hawaii is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 51 | #625 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,203 | 0.8× |
| Hawaii | 12 | #48 | 12.1× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,971 | 0.6× |
| New York | 9 | #1,456 | 0.3× |
| Nevada | 8 | #352 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,282 | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 6 | #970 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,350 | 0.3× |
Where Kalea is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kalea is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1977 it was given 12.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Kalea 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 594,299 babies since 1880, Kalea is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 185 of their 3,577 babies (5.2%), the fourth 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 Kalea
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 Kalea and names like it
- Compare Kalea and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKalea peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalea since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Kalea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.