Khaliyah
#3,227 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Khaliyah has been given to 1,602 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #3,227 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 78 recorded.
Babies named Khaliyah, 2025
1 in 67,700
Khaliyah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Khaliyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 67,700
- 49 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 32,800
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,227
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 46,897 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Khaliyah 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 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khaliyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Khaliyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Khaliyah was born before 2012 — so the typical Khaliyah is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 40.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,602
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 40.4% of all recorded uses (648).
Is Khaliyah 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
- −83
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −796
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −594
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.72×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 62.8%
- Peak was 2009 (78)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.5% average annual change
Spellings of Khaliyah
Khaliyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 43.3% against Khaliyah's 0.63%.
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 Khaliyah is used
Across 2016–2025, Khaliyah was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 32,214 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 14,286
- 2South Carolina1 in 16,667
- 3Florida1 in 20,000
- 4Mississippi1 in 20,000
- 5Tennessee1 in 20,000
- 6Texas1 in 25,000
- 7California1 in 100,000
- 8Illinois1 in 100,000
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.
Khaliyah around the world
Where Khaliyah 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 & Wales2015–2025#3,035in 2025
- Canada2015–2023#2,973in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Khaliyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Khaliyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Khaliyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.