Khaliyah
Khaliyah was given to 49 girls in 2025, #3,227 among girls’ names; 1,602 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Khaliyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khaliyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khaliyah?
#3,227 among girls’ names, 2025
Khaliyah fell from #2,633 in 2015 to #3,227 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 38.1 to 30.5 per million.
78 babies in 2009, the peak
Khaliyah peaked in 2009, when 78 girls were given it, #2,459 among girls’ names. The 49 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,227 | 30.5 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,144 | 31.5 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,500 | 28.0 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,681 | 25.6 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,274 | 29.9 |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,431 | 44.5 |
| 2019 | 77 | #2,342 | 45.9 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,546 | 40.6 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,623 | 38.8 |
| 2016 | 74 | #2,469 | 41.8 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,633 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,252 | 28.0 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,884 | 33.6 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,848 | 34.6 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,572 | 39.8 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,142 | 29.8 |
| 2009 | 78 | #2,459 | 42.5 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,102 | 29.1 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,733 | 34.8 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,956 | 30.5 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,838 | 20.6 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,695 | 33.2 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,153 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,622 | 32.8 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,448 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,235 | 16.0 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,333 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,082 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,949 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,246 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,421 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,459 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Khaliyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khaliyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khaliyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khaliyah, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,602 Americans ever recorded as Khaliyah. The median Khaliyah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 966 people named Khaliyah (962 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,302 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 57 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 764 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 767 |
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).
Where are babies named Khaliyah born?
The states with the most babies named Khaliyah are Florida, Texas and Georgia, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 104 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 95 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 72 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 51 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 20 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 17 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Khaliyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Khaliyah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1994 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Khaliyah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Khaliyah?
Khaliyah is a less common spelling of Kaliyah: SSA has recorded 1,602 Khaliyah and 12,951 Kaliyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,298 babies since 1880, Khaliyah is the sixth most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 1,349 babies (3.6%), again the sixth most given.
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 Khaliyah
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 Khaliyah and names like it
- Compare Khaliyah and KaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKhaliyah peaked in 2009.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khaliyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Khaliyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Khaliyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.