Girls' name · since 2013

Kateleya

Kateleya has 21 recorded births since 2013 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.

#45,404 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#16,502 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
21
born since 2013
2020s
peak decade

21 babies have been named Kateleya since 2013, making it today's #16502 girls' name.

Social Security Administration records show Kateleya recorded 21 times among girls since 2013, holding rank #16502 nationally today, ahead of 5% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2013 to 2025.

  • #45,404 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #16,502 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 21 born since 2013
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kateleya ranks #45,404 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,502 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 21 born since 2013, peaking in the 2020s.

#45,404 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#16,502 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
21
born since 2013
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%4.5%
Kateleya vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Kateleya's 21 recorded births place it above 36.74% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Kateleya compares

21 8th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Kateleya's all-time total is 94% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Kateleya Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 21 376 567,345
Peak-year births 6 21 19,840

Kateleya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Splitting Kateleya's full recorded timeline at 2023, 52% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 48% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2013, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2023 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.

Kateleya popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2013–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2023)
6
Annual births at peak, across 13 years of records
4.555.566.5 2013201520232025 5

Kateleya by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (11 births, 52% of the file).

2020s was Kateleya's strongest decade.

11 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 52% of all-time use.

Kateleya births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 11 births (52% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Kateleya?
Kateleya has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 2013, according to SSA data. Its archive ordinal is #45,404 of 72,339 among girls' names (total births, highest first). Among girls in 2025, it is #16,502 of 17,297. 6 babies were born in 2023, its single highest year.
Where does Kateleya sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kateleya ranks #45,404 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,502 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Kateleya most popular?
Kateleya was most popular in the 2020s decade with 11 total births. The single peak year was 2023.
How long has the name Kateleya been used?
Records for Kateleya go back to 2013, giving 13 years of history through 2025.
What names are similar to Kateleya?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Kathleen, Katherine, Kathryn, Kathy, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Two nationwide peer axes for Kateleya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

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, 2013–2025 (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 Kateleya 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.