Kalina
Kalina was given to 135 girls in 2025, #1,566 among girls’ names; 4,288 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,240 Americans named Kalina 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 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalina?
#1,566 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalina rose from #1,835 in 2015 to #1,566 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 63.3 to 84.0 per million.
171 babies in 2019, the peak
Kalina peaked in 2019, when 171 girls were given it, #1,335 among girls’ names. The 135 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 135 | #1,566 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 131 | #1,604 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 159 | #1,410 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 133 | #1,594 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 140 | #1,510 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 163 | #1,350 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 171 | #1,335 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 149 | #1,477 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 147 | #1,511 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 139 | #1,596 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 113 | #1,835 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 130 | #1,646 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 120 | #1,733 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 115 | #1,788 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 123 | #1,706 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 116 | #1,778 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 127 | #1,729 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 116 | #1,848 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 129 | #1,698 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 128 | #1,656 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,758 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 111 | #1,741 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 112 | #1,704 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 101 | #1,785 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 96 | #1,837 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 81 | #2,038 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 78 | #2,004 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 73 | #2,030 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 66 | #2,118 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 59 | #2,267 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,133 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,274 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 64 | #2,112 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,656 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,052 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,579 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,949 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,379 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,809 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,936 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,726 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,458 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,086 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,701 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,834 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,406 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,403 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,336 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,049 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,368 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,770 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,847 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,977 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,214 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,974 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,179 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalina, and how old are they?
4,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,288 Americans ever recorded as Kalina. The median Kalina alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 3,460 people named Kalina (3,445 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,431 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 95 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 650 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,820 |
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 Kalina born?
The states with the most babies named Kalina are California, Pennsylvania and Florida, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,619 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #891 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,492 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,516 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 7 | #861 | 0.4× |
| New York | 6 | #1,942 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,325 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,137 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,574 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,264 | 0.4× |
Where Kalina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kalina is most over-represented in California: since 1962 it was given 1.2 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 Kalina 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 25,445 babies since 1880, Kalina is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 135 of their 1,218 babies (11%), again the second most given.
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 Kalina
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 Kalina and names like it
- Compare Kalina and KalaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKalina peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalina since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Kalina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kalina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.