Kaliya
Kaliya was given to 61 girls in 2025, #2,795 among girls’ names; 1,100 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Kaliya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaliya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaliya?
#2,795 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaliya rose from #4,542 in 2015 to #2,795 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 17.4 to 38.0 per million.
61 babies in 2025, the peak
Kaliya peaked in 2025, when 61 girls were given it, #2,795 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 51 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,795 | 38.0 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,142 | 31.5 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,149 | 21.8 |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,002 | 22.6 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,280 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,810 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,209 | 20.3 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,403 | 18.8 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,884 | 22.6 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,961 | 21.4 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,542 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,956 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,430 | 26.2 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,242 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,298 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,066 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,021 | 31.0 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,186 | 28.0 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,448 | 25.0 |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,481 | 24.2 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,548 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,707 | 21.2 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,466 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,120 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,260 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,231 | 16.0 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,524 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,252 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,721 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,117 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,057 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,530 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaliya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaliya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaliya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaliya, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,100 Americans ever recorded as Kaliya. The median Kaliya alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 701 people named Kaliya (696 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 848 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 20 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 571 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 500 |
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).
How common is the spelling Kaliya?
Kaliya is a less common spelling of Kaliyah: SSA has recorded 1,100 Kaliya and 12,951 Kaliyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 94,707 babies since 1880, Kaliya is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 2,210 babies (2.8%), 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 Kaliya
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 Kaliya and names like it
- Compare Kaliya and KaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKaliya peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaliya since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kaliya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaliya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.