Caliyah
#1,990 for girls in 2025, 96 births
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 106 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,037since 1994
Caliyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Caliyah 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 | #1,990 | 96 |
| 2024 | #2,303 | 80 |
| 2023 | #2,176 | 87 |
| 2022 | #2,277 | 82 |
| 2021 | #1,991 | 97 |
| 2020 | #1,991 | 94 |
| 2019 | #1,971 | 98 |
| 2018 | #1,953 | 101 |
| 2017 | #1,902 | 106 |
| 2016 | #1,929 | 104 |
| 2015 | #2,025 | 97 |
| 2014 | #2,010 | 98 |
| 2013 | #2,305 | 80 |
| 2012 | #1,955 | 100 |
| 2011 | #2,017 | 97 |
| 2010 | #2,386 | 79 |
| 2009 | #2,643 | 69 |
| 2008 | #2,754 | 66 |
| 2007 | #2,890 | 62 |
| 2006 | #3,505 | 45 |
| 2005 | #2,731 | 61 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 |
| 2003 | #3,291 | 44 |
| 2002 | #3,334 | 41 |
| 2001 | #4,107 | 30 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Caliyah! It came in at #10,569, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1996, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Caliyah is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#842 · 1 in 3,699
- Tennessee#862 · 1 in 4,338
- Florida#995 · 1 in 5,747
- Virginia#1,014 · 1 in 5,690
- Illinois#1,190 · 1 in 6,965
Best ever in a state: #429 in Mississippi, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #842 | 5 | 1 in 3,699 |
| Tennessee | #862 | 7 | 1 in 4,338 |
| Florida | #995 | 14 | 1 in 5,747 |
| Virginia | #1,014 | 6 | 1 in 5,690 |
| Illinois | #1,190 | 7 | 1 in 6,965 |
| Georgia | #1,279 | 6 | 1 in 7,415 |
| California | #3,183 | 5 | 1 in 34,843 |
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See more about Caliyah
- 313 spots since 2024 (#2,303 → #1,990)
- 1 spot since 2020 (#1,991 → #1,990)
- 35 spots since 2015 (#2,025 → #1,990)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2017 at #1,902 (106 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,287 girls born in 2017 were named Caliyah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,742 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 47.1% of all girls named Caliyah (960) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 59 | #6,483 (1997) | #9,251 |
| 2000s | 482 | #2,643 (2009) | #3,429 |
| 2010s | 960 | #1,902 (2017) | #2,045 |
| 2020s | 536 | #1,990 (2025) | #2,121 |
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.
Caliyah in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
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1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 17,197 of them was named Caliyah, which outranked 88.6% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,977Luana95
- #1,977Rochel95
- #1,977Yaretzy95
- #1,991Caliyah94
- #1,991Avigail94
- #1,991Berklee94
- #1,991Camdyn94
- #2,005Adore93
- #2,005Ali93
- #2,005Annalia93
Tied with 13 names at #1,991; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.