Khala
Khala was last recorded in 2006, when 6 babies were given it; 281 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khala by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khala?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,176, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1996, the peak
Khala peaked in 1996, when 25 girls were given it, #4,245 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | #16,176 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,439 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,189 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,875 | 4.9 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,738 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,647 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,796 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,719 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,656 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,245 | 14.3 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 16 | #5,818 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,570 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,835 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,271 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,281 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,189 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,206 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,784 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,048 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,094 | 4.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,081 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,125 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Khala a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khala has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khala: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khala, and how old are they?
An estimated 276 Americans named Khala and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 27 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 271 people named Khala (264 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 277 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Khala is a less common spelling of Kala: SSA has recorded 281 Khala and 7,772 Kala since 1880.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Khala
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.