Kaliah
Kaliah was given to 118 girls in 2025, #1,723 among girls’ names; 2,676 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,650 Americans named Kaliah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaliah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaliah?
#1,723 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaliah rose from #1,917 in 2015 to #1,723 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 59.4 to 73.4 per million.
129 babies in 2021, the peak
Kaliah peaked in 2021, when 129 girls were given it, #1,623 among girls’ names. The 118 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 118 | #1,723 | 73.4 |
| 2024 | 109 | #1,844 | 67.3 |
| 2023 | 111 | #1,820 | 69.2 |
| 2022 | 113 | #1,811 | 68.9 |
| 2021 | 129 | #1,623 | 78.6 |
| 2020 | 119 | #1,709 | 73.6 |
| 2019 | 108 | #1,869 | 64.3 |
| 2018 | 103 | #1,931 | 60.5 |
| 2017 | 101 | #1,968 | 58.5 |
| 2016 | 107 | #1,892 | 60.4 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 106 | #1,917 | 59.4 |
| 2014 | 84 | #2,244 | 47.0 |
| 2013 | 106 | #1,892 | 60.4 |
| 2012 | 104 | #1,911 | 59.1 |
| 2011 | 93 | #2,077 | 52.9 |
| 2010 | 107 | #1,889 | 60.2 |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,128 | 51.7 |
| 2008 | 99 | #2,066 | 52.4 |
| 2007 | 89 | #2,222 | 46.3 |
| 2006 | 72 | #2,545 | 37.9 |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,386 | 40.0 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,690 | 33.2 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,493 | 22.4 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,911 | 28.4 |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,647 | 31.7 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,754 | 29.2 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,138 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,861 | 26.0 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,286 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,111 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,312 | 19.3 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,839 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,528 | 9.4 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,795 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,067 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,693 | 5.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,449 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,653 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,536 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,735 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,503 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,903 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,624 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaliah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaliah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaliah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaliah, and how old are they?
2,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,676 Americans ever recorded as Kaliah. The median Kaliah alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,595 people named Kaliah (1,568 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,991 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 149 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,410 |
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 Kaliah born?
The states with the most babies named Kaliah are California, Florida and Texas, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,295 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,204 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,972 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,207 | 0.5× |
| New York | 6 | #1,941 | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 5 | #999 | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,114 | 0.2× |
Where Kaliah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaliah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1978 it was given 1.4 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 Kaliah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kaliah?
Kaliah is a less common spelling of Kaliyah: SSA has recorded 2,676 Kaliah and 12,951 Kaliyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 79,185 babies since 1880, Kaliah is the eighth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 118 of their 2,364 babies (5.0%), 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 Kaliah
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 Kaliah and names like it
- Compare Kaliah and KaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKaliah peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaliah since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Kaliah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaliah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.