Kelilah — #4842 US girls' name
205 babies named Kelilah in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 73% of names given to girls today.
46% of everyone ever named Kelilah was born in this single decade.
28 babies were named Kelilah in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kelilah
The Social Security Administration has registered 205 babies named Kelilah between 1999 and 2024, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kelilah currently holds the #4842 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 28 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kelilah performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 94 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kelilah shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kelilah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kelilah 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 205 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.
Kelilah at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kelilah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1999
- Peak year (2023)
- 28
- Annual births at peak — across 26 years of records
Currently ranks #4842 among girls.
205 total births across 26 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 28 births in a single year.
Kelilah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 94 births that decade — 46% of Kelilah's all-time total
Kelilah decade highlights
- Peak decade 94 births
- Runner-up 74 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Kelilah's strongest decade
94 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
Kelilah by state
Where Kelilah concentrates geographically — total births since 1999
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 6 | 2.9% |
6 of 205 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 2.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 2.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile 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, 1999–2024 (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.