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Kalia

#1,064 in 2025Girls' name

Waited for

Kalia has been given to 5,870 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #1,064 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 229 recorded.

Babies named Kalia, 2025

1 in 14,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kalia: meaning, origin, and history

Waited for

Hawaiian

What Kalia means

Kalia means “waited for”, associated with kalia.

Origin, language, and formation

Kalia is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Kalia is pronounced /kaˈli.a/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,870 girls were recorded with the name Kalia between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 229 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,064 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,217 in 2020 to #1,064 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,198 in 2015 to #1,064 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 Kalia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,500
229 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,020
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,064
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,036 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalia 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,036 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kalias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalia was born before 2010 — so the typical Kalia is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,870
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.9% of all recorded uses (1,873).

Is Kalia 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
+190
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+153
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+134
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2008 (229)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,064
2025

Spellings of Kalia

Kalia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 14.4% against Kalia's 0.15%.

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 Kalia is used

Across 2016–2025, Kalia was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 366 girls, against 1 in 9,551 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

2273 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 366
  2. 2Florida1 in 5,000
  3. 3California1 in 5,882
  4. 4Washington1 in 5,882
  5. 5Georgia1 in 6,667
  6. 6Utah1 in 6,667
  7. 7Oregon1 in 7,143
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 7,692

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.

Kalia around the world

Where Kalia 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
    2002–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2018
    #809
    in 2018
  • France
    1983–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,542
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kalia

People whose public names include Kalia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kalia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,064
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 153
Best rank ever
#1,064
2025
Peak year
2008
229 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,870
Count in 2025
229

Names similar to Kalia

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

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Names with a curve like Kalia

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

ZairaLeenaAkiraLiannaAnneliseYaneliGiavannaNathaliaElaynaJaelKarolinaKamille

Sibling names for Kalia

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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