Caliyah
#1,992 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Caliyah has been given to 2,037 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #1,992 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 106 recorded.
Babies named Caliyah, 2025
1 in 34,500
Caliyah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Caliyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 34,500
- 96 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 16,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,992
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 23,938 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Caliyah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 23,938 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caliyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Caliyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Caliyah was born before 2015 — so the typical Caliyah is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 47.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,037
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 47.1% of all recorded uses (960).
Is Caliyah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +320
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +36
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.99×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 90.6%
- Peak was 2017 (106)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 11.6% average annual change
Spellings of Caliyah
Caliyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 22.4% against Caliyah's 0.41%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Caliyah is used
Across 2016–2025, Caliyah was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 17,739 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Caliyah around the world
Where Caliyah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2019–2025#3,705in 2025
- Canada2018–2018#3,384in 2018
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Caliyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Caliyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Caliyah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Caliyah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Caliyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.