Kalijah
#4,946 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kalijah has been given to 365 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #4,946 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 20 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 82% boys, 18% girls all-time.
Babies named Kalijah, 2025
1 in 166,000
Kalijah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kalijah over time
In 2025, Kalijah went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kalijah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 166,000
- 20 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 85,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,946
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 114,896 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kalijah 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalijah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kalijahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalijah was born before 2014 — so the typical Kalijah is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 34.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 298
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (102).
Is Kalijah 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
- +212
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +620
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,818
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2001 (20)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.4% average annual change
Spellings of Kalijah
Kalijah is not the most common spelling — Elijah is, with 96.0% against Kalijah's 0.08%.
Kalijah around the world
Where Kalijah 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.
- South Australia1995–1995#533in 1995
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kalijah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kalijah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kalijah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.