Kaleah

#1,423 for girls in 2025, 152 births

Peak · girls
2013 · 239 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,439
since 1978

Kaleah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Kaleah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202017peak #1,039, 2013girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#1,423152
2024#1,429155
2023#1,287178
2022#1,279187
2021#1,211196
2020#1,412155
2019#1,117218
2018#1,425155
2017#1,364169
2016#1,275190
2015#1,170215
2014#1,215201
2013#1,039239
2012#1,136216
2011#1,123218
2010#1,206200
2009#1,342178
2008#1,508154
2007#1,621137
2006#1,743119
2005#1,767111
2004#1,630119
2003#2,04887
2002#2,19975
2001#2,84451
2000#3,12144
1999#3,18840
1998#3,35336
1997#3,36534
1996#3,14937
1995#3,67029
1994#7,09712
1993#7,03812
1992#5,48417
1991#5,94915
1990#5,83515
1989#12,3625
1988#9,2447
1987#5,31214
1986#6,61210
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First appearance
1978

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.

See more about Kaleah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 6 spots since 2024 (#1,429#1,423)
  • 11 spots since 2020 (#1,412#1,423)
  • 253 spots since 2015 (#1,170#1,423)
Rise & fade · girls
35 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1978
  • Peaked 2013 at #1,039 (239 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 7,342
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 45.5% of all girls named Kaleah (2,021) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s12#8,061 (1979)#8,906
1980s61#5,312 (1987)#7,932
1990s247#3,149 (1996)#4,813
2000s1,075#1,342 (2009)#1,982
2010s2,021#1,039 (2013)#1,207
2020s1,023#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 2017

girls
#1,364
169 births · 1 in 10,216 girls

Top girls' names in 2017

  1. #1Emma19,873
  2. #2Olivia18,778
  3. #3Ava16,017
  4. #4Isabella15,263
  5. #5Sophia14,947
  6. #6Mia13,521
  7. #7Charlotte12,969
  8. #8Amelia11,870
  9. #9Evelyn10,748
  10. #10Abigail10,645
  11. #1,364Kaleah169
More about 2017

girls

1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 10,216 of them was named Kaleah, which outranked 92.6% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kaleah
  1. #1,360Belinda170
  2. #1,360Dior170
  3. #1,360Yuliana170
  4. #1,364Kaleah169
  5. #1,364Amariah169
  6. #1,364Emani169
  7. #1,364Emry169
  8. #1,373Jazmyn168
  9. #1,373Katerina168
  10. #1,373Khari168

Tied with 8 names at #1,364; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. 1,443Ensley#2,412#969
  2. 1,020Oaklynn#1,908#888
  3. 842Dream#1,667#825
  4. 749Oaklyn#1,425#676
  5. 717Melania#1,649#932
Fallers
  1. 263Julianne#919#1,182
  2. 243Milania#947#1,190
  3. 240Wendy#858#1,098
  4. 238Montserrat#808#1,046
  5. 224Nathaly#930#1,154

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2017