Kataleah — #8324 US girls' name
180 babies named Kataleah in U.S. Social Security records since 2012, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 53% of names given to girls today.
71% of everyone ever named Kataleah was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Kataleah in 2017 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kataleah
The Social Security Administration has registered 180 babies named Kataleah between 2012 and 2024, spanning 13 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kataleah currently holds the #8324 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kataleah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 127 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Kataleah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 46 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kataleah in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kataleah 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 180 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.
Kataleah at a glance
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Current rank
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Kataleah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2012
- Peak year (2017)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 13 years of records
Currently ranks #8324 among girls.
180 total births across 13 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2017 with 20 births in a single year.
Kataleah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 127 births that decade — 71% of Kataleah's all-time total
Kataleah decade highlights
- Peak decade 127 births
- Runner-up 53 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Kataleah's strongest decade
127 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 71% of all-time use.
Kataleah by state
Where Kataleah concentrates geographically — total births since 2012
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 46 | 25.6% |
| #2 | Texas | | 7 | 3.9% |
46 of 180 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 25.6% of nationwide
- Texas 3.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 25.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2012–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.