Kalayah
#1,611 for girls in 2025, 129 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 140 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,442since 1998
Kalayah over time
Rank among girls' names. Kalayah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,611 | 129 |
| 2024 | #1,529 | 140 |
| 2023 | #1,750 | 117 |
| 2022 | #1,684 | 124 |
| 2021 | #1,768 | 115 |
| 2020 | #1,924 | 99 |
| 2019 | #2,355 | 76 |
| 2018 | #2,810 | 60 |
| 2017 | #2,597 | 67 |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 |
| 2015 | #3,389 | 47 |
| 2014 | #2,888 | 59 |
| 2013 | #3,042 | 54 |
| 2012 | #3,782 | 41 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 |
| 2010 | #3,689 | 42 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 |
| 2008 | #5,142 | 28 |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 |
| 2006 | #4,811 | 29 |
| 2005 | #7,500 | 15 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 |
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| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 |
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| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kalayah! It came in at #11,138, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1999, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kalayah
- 82 spots since 2024 (#1,529 → #1,611)
- 313 spots since 2020 (#1,924 → #1,611)
- 1,778 spots since 2015 (#3,389 → #1,611)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2024 at #1,529 (140 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,573 girls born in 2024 were named Kalayah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,459 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 50.2% of all girls named Kalayah (724) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 7 | #11,138 (1998) | #11,138 |
| 2000s | 184 | #4,269 (2009) | #6,654 |
| 2010s | 527 | #2,355 (2019) | #3,277 |
| 2020s | 724 | #1,529 (2024) | #1,711 |
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.
Kalayah in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 11,573 of them was named Kalayah, which outranked 91.4% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,524Laynee141
- #1,524Lori141
- #1,524Rori141
- #1,529Kalayah140
- #1,529Angely140
- #1,529Elissa140
- #1,529Kaylynn140
- #1,536Alyvia139
- #1,536Janie139
- #1,536Kadence139
Tied with 6 names at #1,529; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.