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Kelia

#7,681 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Kelia has been given to 1,054 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #7,681 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Kelia, 2025

1 in 237,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kelia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kelia means

Kelia is a given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,054 girls were recorded with the name Kelia between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1993; its best national rank was #3,245 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,755 in 2020 to #7,681 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,376 in 2015 to #7,681 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 Kelia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,681
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kelia 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kelia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kelias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kelia was born before 1998 — so the typical Kelia is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,054
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (293).

Is Kelia 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
−2,311
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+74
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,305
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 1993 (35)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,245
1993

Spellings of Kelia

Kelia is not the most common spelling — Julia is, with 13.5% against Kelia's 0.03%.

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 Kelia is used

Across 1910–2025, Kelia was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 529,000 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 11,111
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Kelia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kelia around the world

Where Kelia 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
    2013–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1988–2025
    #1,223
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kelia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,681
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 74
Best rank ever
#3,245
1993
Peak year
1993
35 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,054
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Kelia

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

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Sibling names for Kelia

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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