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Kailash

#5,993 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly leprosy, through कैलास

Kailash has been given to 342 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #5,993 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Kailash, 2025

1 in 221,000

Kailash over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kailash: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly leprosy, through कैलास

Sanskrit

What Kailash means

Kailash belongs to the name family reached through Kailash → कैलास. Its meaning is “leprosy”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kailash is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Kailash comes through Sanskrit कैलास.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include कैलास.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 342 boys were recorded with the name Kailash between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2021; its best national rank was #4,850 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,459 in 2020 to #5,993 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,963 in 2015 to #5,993 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kailash?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,993
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kailash sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kailash. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kailashs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kailash was born before 2014 — so the typical Kailash is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
342
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (135).

Is Kailash 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
+331
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+466
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,030
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.0%
Peak was 2021 (20)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,850
2021

Spellings of Kailash

Kailash is not the most common spelling — Kailan is, with 63.7% against Kailash's 36.3%.

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 Kailash is used

Across 1910–2025, Kailash was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 375,080 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Kailash has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kailash around the world

Where Kailash 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 & Wales
    2003–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2011–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kailash by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,993
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 466
Best rank ever
#4,850
2021
Peak year
2021
20 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
342
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Kailash

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KaimaniKailandKainaluKaivonKaironKainoahKaiyanKailonKaicenKaireeKairavKaimanaKaidenceKaikoaKaizynKairenKailanKairynKaidonKaivenKaiyonKairosKaielKailer

Sibling names for Kailash

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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