Kla
Kla was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 245 Americans have been recorded with it between 1983 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kla?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,869, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2000, the peak
Kla peaked in 2000, when 16 girls were given it, #6,653 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #16,869 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,900 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,951 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,941 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,984 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,821 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,296 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,119 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,393 | 3.7 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,200 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 9 | #10,889 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,562 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,485 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,653 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,574 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,646 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,074 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,503 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,115 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,891 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,378 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,856 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,974 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,663 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,579 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,795 | 4.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,108 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kla, and how old are they?
An estimated 241 Americans named Kla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 22 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
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 Kla
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.