Kalianna

#5,816 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kalianna has been given to 450 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #5,816 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Kalianna, 2025

1 in 158,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Kalianna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,816
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalianna 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalianna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaliannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalianna was born before 2015 — so the typical Kalianna is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
450
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Choose a decade

2010s — 48.0% of all recorded uses (216).

Is Kalianna 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
+968
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+947
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−252
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.4%
Peak was 2012 (29)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,896
2012

Spellings of Kalianna

Kalianna is not the most common spelling — Arianna is, with 34.9% against Kalianna'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 Kalianna is used

Across 1910–2025, Kalianna was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,975,867 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Kalianna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kalianna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,816
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 947
Best rank ever
#4,896
2012
Peak year
2012
29 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
450
Count in 2025
21

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Sibling names for Kalianna

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