Kahli
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kahli has been given to 579 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2015, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% girls, 20% boys all-time.
Babies named Kahli, 2024
1 in 478,000
Kahli 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kahli over time
In 2024, Kahli went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kahli?
Kahli had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kahli sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kahli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kahlis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kahli was born before 2010 — so the typical Kahli is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 75.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 462
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (190).
Is Kahli 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2015 (26)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.1% average annual change
Spellings of Kahli
Kahli is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 35.5% against Kahli's 0.05%.
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 Kahli is used
Across 1910–2025, Kahli was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,752,106 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in —
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. Kahli has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kahli around the world
Where Kahli 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.
- Canada2009–2009#3,263in 2009
- South Australia1985–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kahli by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kahli
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kahli
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.