Girls' name · since 2009
Khalayah
60 babies named Khalayah in U.S. Social Security records since 2009, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #32,864 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,324 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 60
- born since 2009
- 2020s
- peak decade
Khalayah currently ranks #16324 among girls' names in America, with 60 babies recorded since 2009.
Khalayah has 60 recorded births among girls since 2009, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #16324 as of the latest data, more common than 6% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2009 to 2025.
- #32,864 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,324 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 60 born since 2009
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Khalayah ranks #32,864 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,324 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 60 born since 2009, peaking in the 2020s.
- #32,864 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,324 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 60
- born since 2009
- 2020s
- peak decade
Khalayah's 60 recorded births place it above 54.42% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Khalayah compares
60 18th 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
Khalayah's all-time total is 84% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Khalayah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 60 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 10 | 21 | 19,840 |
Khalayah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Khalayah's full recorded timeline at 2021, 53% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 47% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2019, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2020 peak of 10 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Khalayah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2009–2025
- Peak year (2020)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 17 years of records
Khalayah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (42 births, 70% of the file).
2020s was Khalayah's strongest decade.
42 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 70% of all-time use.
Khalayah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 6
2000s
6 births
- 2010s 12
2010s
12 births
- 2020s
2020s
42 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 42 births (70% of all-time use).
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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, 2009–2025 (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 Khalayah 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.