Kaliah
#1,723 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaliah has been given to 2,676 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #1,723 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 129 recorded.
Babies named Kaliah, 2025
1 in 28,100
Kaliah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kaliah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 28,100
- 118 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 13,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,723
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 19,475 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaliah 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 19,475 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaliah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaliahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaliah was born before 2013 — so the typical Kaliah is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,676
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (1,019).
Is Kaliah 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
- +121
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −14
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +194
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.11×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 91.5%
- Peak was 2021 (129)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 9.2% average annual change
Spellings of Kaliah
Kaliah is not the most common spelling — Mariah is, with 14.8% against Kaliah's 0.35%.
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 Kaliah is used
Across 2016–2025, Kaliah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 15,634 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 8,333
- 2Mississippi1 in 9,091
- 3South Carolina1 in 9,091
- 4Georgia1 in 10,000
- 5California1 in 12,500
- 6Texas1 in 14,286
- 7Illinois1 in 16,667
- 8Ohio1 in 16,667
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.
Kaliah around the world
Where Kaliah 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
- France2025–2025#4,833in 2025
- Canada2012–2021#3,354in 2021
- South Australia1987–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.
Kaliah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kaliah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kaliah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kaliah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kaliah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.