Kalila
Kalila was given to 52 girls in 2025, #3,120 among girls’ names; 1,168 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Kalila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalila?
#3,120 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalila rose from #3,677 in 2015 to #3,120 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.5 to 32.4 per million.
67 babies in 2019, the peak
Kalila peaked in 2019, when 67 girls were given it, #2,618 among girls’ names. The 52 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #3,120 | 32.4 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,674 | 25.9 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,402 | 29.3 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,736 | 25.0 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,941 | 34.7 |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,653 | 25.4 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,618 | 39.9 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,799 | 35.9 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,948 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,555 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,677 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,877 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,812 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,629 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,284 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,277 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,188 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,849 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,433 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,306 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,906 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,087 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,498 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,344 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,934 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,322 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,320 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,708 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,636 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,389 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,368 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,138 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,787 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,361 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,252 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,944 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,694 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,691 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,451 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,959 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,215 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,654 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,979 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,634 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,704 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,505 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,916 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,012 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,300 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalila, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,168 Americans ever recorded as Kalila. The median Kalila alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 756 people named Kalila (747 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 889 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 31 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 168 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 625 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 429,257 babies since 1880, Kalila is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 2,999 babies (1.7%), the sixth 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 Kalila
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 Kalila and names like it
- Compare Kalila and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalila since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Kalila.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kalila alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.