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Klea

#9,789 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Klea has been given to 289 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #9,789 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Klea, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Klea: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Klea means

Klea is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Klea is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 289 girls were recorded with the name Klea between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,790 in 1920.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,766 in 2020 to #9,789 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,859 in 2015 to #9,789 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Klea?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,789
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Klea 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Klea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kleas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Klea was born before 2014 — so the typical Klea is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
276
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.2% of all recorded uses (122).

Is Klea 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
−529
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,023
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,930
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.6%
Peak was 2022 (19)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,790
1920

Spellings of Klea

Klea is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 14.7% against Klea's 0.01%.

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 Klea is used

Across 1910–2025, Klea was most concentrated in Idaho — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 504,278 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Idaho1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 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. Klea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Klea around the world

Where Klea 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
    2000–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2025
    #1,869
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1967–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Klea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,789
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,023
Best rank ever
#3,790
1920
Peak year
2022
19 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
289
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Klea

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

KleoKleeEleaMyleaHaleaCaleaKleioCleaZaleaMileaIleaNaleaKleighKahleaOleaMayleaJaleaElleaAnaleaKhaleaSoleaBayleaEmileaMelea

Sibling names for Klea

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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