Kaleah — #1431 US girls' name
4,285 babies named Kaleah in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 2013. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 92% of names given to girls today.
47% of everyone ever named Kaleah was born in this single decade.
239 babies were named Kaleah in 2013 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kaleah
The Social Security Administration has registered 4,285 babies named Kaleah between 1978 and 2024, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaleah currently holds the #1431 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 239 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaleah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,019 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kaleah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 442 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaleah in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kaleah 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 4,285 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.
Kaleah at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
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Kaleah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1978
- Peak year (2013)
- 239
- Annual births at peak — across 47 years of records
Currently ranks #1431 among girls.
4,285 total births across 47 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2013 with 239 births in a single year.
Kaleah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 2,019 births that decade — 47% of Kaleah's all-time total
Kaleah decade highlights
- Peak decade 2,019 births
- Runner-up 1,075 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Kaleah's strongest decade
2,019 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
Kaleah by state
Where Kaleah concentrates geographically — total births since 1978
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 442 | 10.3% |
| #2 | Florida | | 343 | 8.0% |
| #3 | Texas | | 285 | 6.7% |
| #4 | Georgia | | 179 | 4.2% |
| #5 | North Carolina | | 142 | 3.3% |
| #6 | Ohio | | 134 | 3.1% |
| #7 | New York | | 107 | 2.5% |
| #8 | Virginia | | 107 | 2.5% |
442 of 4,285 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 27 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 10.3% of nationwide
- Florida 8.0% of nationwide
- Texas 6.7% of nationwide
- Georgia 4.2% of nationwide
- North Carolina 3.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 27 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 10.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
Kaleah appears in 27 states. Explore state details →
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1978–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.