Kalia
Kalia was given to 229 girls in 2025, #1,064 among girls’ names; 5,870 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,810 Americans named Kalia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kalia mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Kalia is “a female given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the sense “waited for” (kalia).
kalia (“waited for”), also the name of a native tree of the linden family.
/kaˈli.a/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kalia?
#1,064 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalia rose from #1,198 in 2015 to #1,064 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.12 to 0.14 per 1,000.
229 babies in 2008, the peak
Kalia peaked in 2008, when 229 girls were given it, #1,128 among girls’ names. The 229 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 229 | #1,064 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 186 | #1,254 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 220 | #1,118 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 215 | #1,136 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 175 | #1,299 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 188 | #1,217 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 169 | #1,345 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 173 | #1,317 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 163 | #1,407 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 149 | #1,520 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 209 | #1,198 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 194 | #1,250 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 215 | #1,127 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 211 | #1,162 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 210 | #1,167 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 180 | #1,309 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 225 | #1,124 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 229 | #1,128 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 228 | #1,131 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 194 | #1,244 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 208 | #1,129 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 144 | #1,432 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 126 | #1,535 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 132 | #1,446 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 114 | #1,614 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 101 | #1,731 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,922 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,852 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 86 | #1,758 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 84 | #1,772 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 97 | #1,566 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,980 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,017 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,888 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,218 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,411 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,492 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,609 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,683 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,489 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,675 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,457 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,609 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,834 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,664 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,830 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,114 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,148 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,338 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,925 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,838 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,063 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalia, and how old are they?
5,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,870 Americans ever recorded as Kalia. The median Kalia alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 4,427 people named Kalia (4,387 women and girls, 40 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,659 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 77 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 728 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,470 |
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 Kalia born?
The states with the most babies named Kalia are California, Florida and Texas, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 34 | #866 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 18 | #895 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 15 | #1,577 | 0.4× |
| New York | 12 | #1,200 | 0.5× |
| Hawaii | 9 | #85 | 7.8× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,027 | 0.9× |
| Utah | 9 | #464 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,097 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 8 | #684 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,210 | 0.6× |
Where Kalia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kalia is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1963 it was given 7.8 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 Kalia 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 473,512 babies since 1880, Kalia is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 229 of their 3,637 babies (6.3%), 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 Kalia
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 Kalia and names like it
- Compare Kalia and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKalia peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalia since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Kalia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kalia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.