Kalifa — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kalifa

The Social Security Administration has registered 81 babies named Kalifa between 1992 and 2000, spanning 9 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kalifa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Kalifa is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2018.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kalifa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 75 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Kalifa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kalifa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kalifa 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 81 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.