Kaliyah — #443 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kaliyah

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,146 babies named Kaliyah between 1994 and 2024, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaliyah currently holds the #443 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 701 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaliyah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,470 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kaliyah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,078 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaliyah in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaliyah 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 12,146 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.