Kala
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · Last seen for boys in 2010 at #10,766
Given to girls 98.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1989 · 525 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,680since 1943
Kala over time
Rank among girls' names. Kala has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 | — | |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | — | |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | — | |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | — | |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,632 | 30 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 | — | |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | — | |
| 2013 | #5,834 | 22 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | — | |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,860 | 29 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #3,084 | 55 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #4,475 | 33 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,414 | 47 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,731 | 61 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,309 | 75 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,167 | 80 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,573 | 118 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,396 | 136 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,270 | 153 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #1,143 | 171 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,040 | 190 | — | |
| 1997 | #949 | 209 | — | |
| 1996 | #852 | 234 | — | |
| 1995 | #691 | 308 | — | |
| 1994 | #673 | 315 | — | |
| 1993 | #638 | 351 | — | |
| 1992 | #635 | 354 | — | |
| 1991 | #551 | 426 | — | |
| 1990 | #543 | 438 | — | |
| 1989 | #462 | 525 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #491 | 462 | — | |
| 1987 | #529 | 381 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #670 | 273 | — | |
| 1985 | #765 | 223 | — | |
| 1984 | #798 | 199 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #624 | 277 | — | |
| 1982 | #761 | 217 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,958 | 54 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,981 | 53 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,050 | 49 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,841 | 54 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #1,922 | 51 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #1,996 | 44 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #2,278 | 36 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #2,029 | 41 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #2,223 | 35 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #2,598 | 27 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #1,772 | 50 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,120 | 38 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,058 | 37 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,538 | 24 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,117 | 31 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,308 | 27 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,411 | 25 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,195 | 30 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,015 | 34 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,163 | 30 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,150 | 30 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,097 | 30 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,517 | 21 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,376 | 23 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,926 | 16 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,048 | 15 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,553 | 19 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,812 | 15 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,581 | 17 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 | — | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kala! It came in at #3,801, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kala
- 1,014 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #9,457)
- 3,970 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #9,457)
- 4,873 spots since 2015 (#4,584 → #9,457)
- Biggest jump: 1,197 spots in 1982 (#1,958 → #761)
- Biggest drop: 174 spots in 1984 (#624 → #798)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1989 at #462 (525 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1982–1997
- Highest: 1 in 3,512 girls born in 1989 were named Kala (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.0% of all girls named Kala (2,996) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 50 | #3,350 (1948) | #4,040 |
| 1950s | 149 | #2,376 (1958) | #3,158 |
| 1960s | 298 | #2,015 (1963) | #2,205 |
| 1970s | 425 | #1,772 (1971) | #2,083 |
| 1980s | 2,664 | #462 (1989) | #904 |
| 1990s | 2,996 | #543 (1990) | #772 |
| 2000s | 784 | #1,270 (2000) | #2,780 |
| 2010s | 225 | #4,584 (2015) | #5,900 |
| 2020s | 89 | #5,487 (2020) | #7,598 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kala in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
Top boys' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 11,870 of them was named Kala, which outranked 92.8% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,266Griselda154
- #1,266Jessenia154
- #1,266Lucille154
- #1,270Kala153
- #1,270Annabella153
- #1,270Dara153
- #1,270Madysen153
- #1,276Haily152
- #1,276Karyme152
- #1,276Lisbeth152
Tied with 5 names at #1,270; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,964,001 boys got a published name in 2000; 1 in 327,334 of them was named Kala, which outranked 24.8% of the 12,119 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,209Zuhayr7
- #8,209Zyad7
- #8,209Zykeith7
- #9,112Kala6
- #9,112Aadam6
- #9,112Aahil6
- #9,112Aarin6
- #10,349Aadarsh5
- #10,349Aaronjacob5
- #10,349Aaronjoshua5
Tied with 1,236 names at #9,112; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.