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Kaleah

#1,425 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kaleah has been given to 4,439 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #1,425 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 239 recorded.

Babies named Kaleah, 2025

1 in 21,800

Kaleah over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaleah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaleah means

Kaleah is a given name.

The naming story behind Kaleah

Wikidata records Kaleah as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98594598, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,439 girls were recorded with the name Kaleah between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 239 in 2013; its best national rank was #1,040 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,415 in 2020 to #1,425 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,174 in 2015 to #1,425 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.

How common is Kaleah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,800
152 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,425
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,119 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaleah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,119 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaleah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaleahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaleah was born before 2013 — so the typical Kaleah is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,439
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (2,021).

Is Kaleah 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
+7
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−10
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−251
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.6%
Peak was 2013 (239)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,040
2013

Spellings of Kaleah

Kaleah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 55.7% against Kaleah's 0.96%.

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 Kaleah is used

Across 2016–2025, Kaleah was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 9,362 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

223 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 4,348
  2. 2Florida1 in 5,263
  3. 3Virginia1 in 5,556
  4. 4Georgia1 in 6,250
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 6,250
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 6,667
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 7,143
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 7,143

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.

Kaleah around the world

Where Kaleah 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
    2011–2024
    #3,319
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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.

Kaleah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,425
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 10
Best rank ever
#1,040
2013
Peak year
2013
239 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,439
Count in 2025
152

Names similar to Kaleah

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

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Names with a curve like Kaleah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kaleah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Kaleah

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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