Girls' name · since 1990
Kelah
24 babies named Kelah in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 1995. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 24
- total births
- 1990–1999
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 100%
- born in that decade
24 girls have been named Kelah since 1990, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Social Security Administration records show Kelah recorded 24 times among girls since 1990, though it doesn't currently rank among the most-used girls names, peaking in the 1990s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1990 to 1999.
- 24 total births
- 1990–1999 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 100% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kelah's 24 recorded births place it above 39% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kelah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kelah splits its recorded history at 1995: 54% of all births land in the more recent half, 46% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1990 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1995 peak of 8 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kelah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1990–1999
- Peak year (1995)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Kelah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Kelah's strongest decade.
24 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Kelah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
24 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 24 births (100% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 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, 1990–1999 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kelah: Baby Name Since 1990 - 24 Births, Peak 1995." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kelah. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Kelah 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 July 2026.