Kalaya
#1,837 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kalaya has been given to 1,559 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #1,837 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 109 recorded.
Babies named Kalaya, 2025
1 in 30,400
Kalaya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kalaya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 30,400
- 109 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 14,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,837
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 21,083 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kalaya 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 21,083 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kalayas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalaya was born before 2015 — so the typical Kalaya is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 36.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,559
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (571).
Is Kalaya 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
- +327
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +274
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,397
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.14×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (109)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.6% average annual change
Spellings of Kalaya
Kalaya is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 15.6% against Kalaya's 0.36%.
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 Kalaya is used
Across 2016–2025, Kalaya was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 27,269 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 11,111
- 2Ohio1 in 14,286
- 3Florida1 in 20,000
- 4California1 in 25,000
- 5Georgia1 in 33,333
- 6Indiana1 in 33,333
- 7Kentucky1 in 33,333
- 8Louisiana1 in 33,333
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.
Kalaya around the world
Where Kalaya 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 & Wales2006–2025#4,201in 2025
- Canada2010–2024#3,457in 2024
- South Australia2013–2013#818in 2013
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.
Kalaya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kalaya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kalaya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.