Kaleah
Kaleah was given to 152 girls in 2025, #1,425 among girls’ names; 4,439 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,400 Americans named Kaleah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaleah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaleah?
#1,425 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaleah fell from #1,174 in 2015 to #1,425 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.09 per 1,000.
239 babies in 2013, the peak
Kaleah peaked in 2013, when 239 girls were given it, #1,040 among girls’ names. The 152 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 152 | #1,425 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 155 | #1,432 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 178 | #1,287 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 187 | #1,281 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 196 | #1,211 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 155 | #1,415 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 218 | #1,118 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 155 | #1,432 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 169 | #1,367 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 190 | #1,276 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 215 | #1,174 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 201 | #1,215 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 239 | #1,040 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 216 | #1,142 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 218 | #1,124 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 200 | #1,208 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 178 | #1,346 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 154 | #1,517 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 137 | #1,629 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,748 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 111 | #1,772 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 119 | #1,633 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 87 | #2,048 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,210 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,854 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,133 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,208 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,381 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,395 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,175 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,712 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,320 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,231 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,585 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,073 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,959 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,301 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,727 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,419 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,821 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,728 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,139 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,045 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,432 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,451 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaleah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaleah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaleah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaleah, and how old are they?
4,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,439 Americans ever recorded as Kaleah. The median Kaleah alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 2,715 people named Kaleah (2,709 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,428 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 185 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,400 |
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 Kaleah born?
The states with the most babies named Kaleah are Texas, California and New York, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,665 | 0.7× |
| California | 13 | #1,697 | 0.8× |
| New York | 12 | #1,199 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,287 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,283 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,206 | 1.0× |
| Maryland | 6 | #781 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,573 | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 5 | #880 | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,219 | 0.9× |
Where Kaleah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaleah is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1978 it was given 1.6 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 Kaleah 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 59,861 babies since 1880, Kaleah is the seventh most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 152 of their 1,451 babies (10%), 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 Kaleah
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 Kaleah and names like it
- Compare Kaleah and KaleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKaleah peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaleah since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Kaleah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaleah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.