Kailah

Peak · girls
2000 · 98 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,263
since 1982

Kailah over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #1,776, 2000girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
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2025#5,41023
2024#4,20734
2023#3,42846
2022#4,10835
2021#4,09035
2020#3,54642
2019#3,78839
2018#3,73940
2017#3,55243
2016#3,84939
2015#2,73664
2014#2,80961
2013#2,72663
2012#3,09454
2011#2,61468
2010#2,36080
2009#2,42579
2008#2,60971
2007#2,27685
2006#2,39678
2005#2,20483
2004#1,99992
2003#2,01989
2002#1,80599
2001#1,85195
2000#1,77698
1999#1,87484
1998#1,88381
1997#2,13865
1996#1,82680
1995#2,15562
1994#2,98839
1993#2,63946
1992#2,77743
1991#3,44331
1990#3,52330
1989#4,52220
1988#4,17221
1987#7,9878
1986#10,9125
1985#9,3076
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First appearance
1982

The first year at least five girls were named Kailah! It came in at #8,224, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1983–1984, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Kailah is popular in 2025

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedCTCalifornia: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedCAUtah: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedHITexas: fewer than 5 girls named Kailah, so not publishedTXFlorida: #2,151 for girls · 5 births · 1 in 17,352 girlsFL

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Top states · girls
  1. Florida#2,151 · 1 in 17,352

Best ever in a state: #233 in Hawaii, 2007.

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See more about Kailah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,203 spots since 2024 (#4,207 → #5,410)
  • 1,864 spots since 2020 (#3,546 → #5,410)
  • 2,674 spots since 2015 (#2,736 → #5,410)
Rise & fade · girls
18 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1982
  • Peaked 2000 at #1,776 (98 births)
  • Births halved by 2016, 16 yrs later
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 18,150
  • Highest: 1 in 18,150 girls born in 2002 were named Kailah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 69,881 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,776 in 2000, was only 1 in 18,531 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 38.4% of all girls named Kailah (869) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s67#4,172 (1988)#7,521
1990s561#1,826 (1996)#2,525
2000s869#1,776 (2000)#2,136
2010s551#2,360 (2010)#3,127
2020s215#3,428 (2023)#4,132

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.

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