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Kaleena

#8,602 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kaleena has been given to 2,114 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #8,602 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1983, with 341 recorded.

Babies named Kaleena, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaleena: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaleena means

Kaleena is a given name.

The naming story behind Kaleena

Wikidata records Kaleena as a given name. The entity identifier is Q25127075, 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, 2,114 girls were recorded with the name Kaleena between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 341 in 1983; its best national rank was #547 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,693 in 2020 to #8,602 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,158 in 2015 to #8,602 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 Kaleena?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,602
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaleena 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaleena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaleenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaleena was born before 1990 — so the typical Kaleena is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
49.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,114
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 49.8% of all recorded uses (1,053).

Is Kaleena 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
−2,563
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,909
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,444
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.23×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.5%
Peak was 1983 (341)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#547
1983

Spellings of Kaleena

Kaleena is not the most common spelling — Alena is, with 13.0% against Kaleena's 1.7%.

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 Kaleena is used

Across 1910–2025, Kaleena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 161,722 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 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. Kaleena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kaleena around the world

Where Kaleena 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.

  • Canada
    1995–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1984–1991
    #669
    in 1991

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.

Kaleena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,602
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,909
Best rank ever
#547
1983
Peak year
1983
341 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,114
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Kaleena

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

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Names with a curve like Kaleena

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

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Sibling names for Kaleena

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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