Khaliah
Khaliah was given to 34 girls in 2025, #4,226 among girls’ names; 1,312 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,290 Americans named Khaliah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khaliah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khaliah?
#4,226 among girls’ names, 2025
Khaliah fell from #4,036 in 2015 to #4,226 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 20.7 to 21.2 per million.
44 babies in 2017, the peak
Khaliah peaked in 2017, when 44 girls were given it, #3,515 among girls’ names. The 34 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,226 | 21.2 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,712 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,084 | 22.4 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,725 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,557 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,116 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,112 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,536 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,515 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,125 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,036 | 20.7 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,061 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,964 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,483 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,758 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,030 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,160 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,230 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,618 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,521 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,222 | 17.9 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,135 | 18.5 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,152 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,828 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,827 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,236 | 23.1 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,382 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,688 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,577 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,884 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,318 | 19.3 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,949 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,066 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,152 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,288 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,306 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,257 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,465 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,677 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,816 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,833 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,361 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,432 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,809 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,428 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,772 | 19.9 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,598 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,358 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,543 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,878 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Khaliah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khaliah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khaliah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khaliah, and how old are they?
1,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,312 Americans ever recorded as Khaliah. The median Khaliah alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 902 people named Khaliah (879 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,121 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 104 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 239 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 497 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 453 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
How common is the spelling Khaliah?
Khaliah is a less common spelling of Kaliyah: SSA has recorded 1,312 Khaliah and 12,951 Kaliyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,613 babies since 1880, Khaliah is the eighth most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 1,510 babies (2.3%), the seventh most given that year.
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 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Khaliah
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.
More about Khaliah and names like it
- Compare Khaliah and KaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKhaliah peaked in 2017.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khaliah since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Khaliah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Khaliah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.