Kaleah
#1,423 for girls in 2025, 152 births
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 239 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,439since 1978
Kaleah over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaleah 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,423 | 152 |
| 2024 | #1,429 | 155 |
| 2023 | #1,287 | 178 |
| 2022 | #1,279 | 187 |
| 2021 | #1,211 | 196 |
| 2020 | #1,412 | 155 |
| 2019 | #1,117 | 218 |
| 2018 | #1,425 | 155 |
| 2017 | #1,364 | 169 |
| 2016 | #1,275 | 190 |
| 2015 | #1,170 | 215 |
| 2014 | #1,215 | 201 |
| 2013 | #1,039 | 239 |
| 2012 | #1,136 | 216 |
| 2011 | #1,123 | 218 |
| 2010 | #1,206 | 200 |
| 2009 | #1,342 | 178 |
| 2008 | #1,508 | 154 |
| 2007 | #1,621 | 137 |
| 2006 | #1,743 | 119 |
| 2005 | #1,767 | 111 |
| 2004 | #1,630 | 119 |
| 2003 | #2,048 | 87 |
| 2002 | #2,199 | 75 |
| 2001 | #2,844 | 51 |
| 2000 | #3,121 | 44 |
| 1999 | #3,188 | 40 |
| 1998 | #3,353 | 36 |
| 1997 | #3,365 | 34 |
| 1996 | #3,149 | 37 |
| 1995 | #3,670 | 29 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
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| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 |
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| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaleah! It came in at #9,750, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1981, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaleah is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#496 · 1 in 2,210
- Alabama#663 · 1 in 3,152
- Missouri#719 · 1 in 3,907
- Maryland#760 · 1 in 4,056
- Ohio#797 · 1 in 4,706
Best ever in a state: #313 in Louisiana, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #496 | 8 | 1 in 2,210 |
| Alabama | #663 | 6 | 1 in 3,152 |
| Missouri | #719 | 7 | 1 in 3,907 |
| Maryland | #760 | 6 | 1 in 4,056 |
| Ohio | #797 | 11 | 1 in 4,706 |
| Tennessee | #872 | 6 | 1 in 4,889 |
| Florida | #900 | 15 | 1 in 5,306 |
| Washington | #930 | 6 | 1 in 5,054 |
| Virginia | #996 | 6 | 1 in 5,941 |
| Georgia | #1,052 | 8 | 1 in 5,996 |
| North Carolina | #1,070 | 7 | 1 in 6,421 |
| Illinois | #1,074 | 9 | 1 in 6,757 |
| Michigan | #1,077 | 6 | 1 in 6,933 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,211 | 6 | 1 in 8,819 |
| California | #1,254 | 24 | 1 in 8,792 |
| New York | #1,474 | 9 | 1 in 10,339 |
| Texas | #2,257 | 8 | 1 in 19,953 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kaleah
- 6 spots since 2024 (#1,429 → #1,423)
- 11 spots since 2020 (#1,412 → #1,423)
- 253 spots since 2015 (#1,170 → #1,423)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2013 at #1,039 (239 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,342 girls born in 2013 were named Kaleah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,574 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 45.5% of all girls named Kaleah (2,021) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 12 | #8,061 (1979) | #8,906 |
| 1980s | 61 | #5,312 (1987) | #7,932 |
| 1990s | 247 | #3,149 (1996) | #4,813 |
| 2000s | 1,075 | #1,342 (2009) | #1,982 |
| 2010s | 2,021 | #1,039 (2013) | #1,207 |
| 2020s | 1,023 | #1,211 (2021) | #1,340 |
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.
Kaleah in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 8,888 of them was named Kaleah, which outranked 93.9% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,197Reece202
- #1,197Samiya202
- #1,205Rebeca201
- #1,206Kaleah200
- #1,206Amyah200
- #1,206Kaidence200
- #1,206Kamilah200
- #1,218Aanya199
- #1,218Remi199
- #1,218Shea199
Tied with 11 names at #1,206; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.