Girls' name · since 1987
Kalya
Kalya has 265 recorded births since 1987 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1989 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #17,034 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 265
- born since 1987
- 1990s
- peak decade
Kalya sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 265 recorded since 1987.
Kalya has 265 recorded births among girls since 1987, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1987 to 2024.
- #17,034 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 265 born since 1987
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kalya ranks #17,034 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 265 born since 1987, peaking in the 1990s.
- #17,034 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 265
- born since 1987
- 1990s
- peak decade
Kalya's 265 recorded births place it above 76.42% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kalya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kalya's SSA record in two at 2001 and the more recent half accounts for 45% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 55%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2010, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1989 peak of 17, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kalya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1987–2024
- Peak year (1989)
- 17
- Annual births at peak, across 38 years of records
Kalya by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (96 births, 36% of the file).
1990s was Kalya's strongest decade.
96 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 36% of all-time use.
Kalya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
39 births
- 1990s
1990s
96 births
- 2000s
2000s
95 births
- 2010s 27
2010s
27 births
- 2020s 8
2020s
8 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 96 births (36% of all-time use).
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- Kalya's decade-level peak was the 1990s (96 total births); usage has since declined to 8 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Kalya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1989)
Similar record span (~37 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1987–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kalya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.