Keliyah

#16,125 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Keliyah has been given to 266 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #16,125 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Keliyah, 2025

1 in 663,000

Keliyah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,125
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keliyah 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keliyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keliyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keliyah was born before 2012 — so the typical Keliyah is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
266
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2010s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (122).

Is Keliyah 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
−4,476
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,511
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,739
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.4%
Peak was 2011 (17)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,267
2011

Spellings of Keliyah

Keliyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 33.8% against Keliyah's 0.08%.

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.

Keliyah around the world

Where Keliyah 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
    2020–2020
    #3,447
    in 2020
  • France
    2009–2025
    #3,589
    in 2025

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

Keliyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,125
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,511
Best rank ever
#7,267
2011
Peak year
2011
17 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
266
Count in 2025
5

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Sibling names for Keliyah

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