Kala
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · Last seen for boys in 2010 at #10,766
Given to girls 98.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1989 · 525 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,680since 1943
Kala over time
Rank among girls' names. Kala has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 | — | |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | — | |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | — | |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | — | |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,632 | 30 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 | — | |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | — | |
| 2013 | #5,834 | 22 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | — | |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,860 | 29 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #3,084 | 55 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #4,475 | 33 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,414 | 47 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,731 | 61 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,309 | 75 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,167 | 80 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,573 | 118 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,396 | 136 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,270 | 153 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #1,143 | 171 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,040 | 190 | — | |
| 1997 | #949 | 209 | — | |
| 1996 | #852 | 234 | — | |
| 1995 | #691 | 308 | — | |
| 1994 | #673 | 315 | — | |
| 1993 | #638 | 351 | — | |
| 1992 | #635 | 354 | — | |
| 1991 | #551 | 426 | — | |
| 1990 | #543 | 438 | — | |
| 1989 | #462 | 525 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #491 | 462 | — | |
| 1987 | #529 | 381 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #670 | 273 | — | |
| 1985 | #765 | 223 | — | |
| 1984 | #798 | 199 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #624 | 277 | — | |
| 1982 | #761 | 217 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,958 | 54 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,981 | 53 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,050 | 49 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,841 | 54 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #1,922 | 51 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #1,996 | 44 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #2,278 | 36 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #2,029 | 41 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #2,223 | 35 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #2,598 | 27 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #1,772 | 50 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,120 | 38 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,058 | 37 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,538 | 24 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,117 | 31 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,308 | 27 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,411 | 25 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,195 | 30 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,015 | 34 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,163 | 30 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,150 | 30 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,097 | 30 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,517 | 21 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,376 | 23 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,926 | 16 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,048 | 15 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,553 | 19 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,812 | 15 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,581 | 17 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 | — | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kala! It came in at #3,801, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kala is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#162 · 1 in 806
- Alabama#162 · 1 in 907
- West Virginia#182 · 1 in 977
- Tennessee#192 · 1 in 1,146
- Arkansas#201 · 1 in 1,136
Best ever in a state: #151 in Alabama, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #162 | 25 | 1 in 907 |
| Mississippi | #162 | 17 | 1 in 806 |
| West Virginia | #182 | 9 | 1 in 977 |
| Tennessee | #192 | 26 | 1 in 1,146 |
| Arkansas | #201 | 11 | 1 in 1,136 |
| Kentucky | #225 | 15 | 1 in 1,419 |
| Indiana | #238 | 23 | 1 in 1,493 |
| South Carolina | #257 | 13 | 1 in 1,523 |
| Georgia | #282 | 23 | 1 in 1,819 |
| Iowa | #285 | 9 | 1 in 1,762 |
| Nebraska | #289 | 5 | 1 in 1,824 |
| Ohio | #301 | 33 | 1 in 2,117 |
| Wisconsin | #311 | 13 | 1 in 2,253 |
| Florida | #312 | 37 | 1 in 2,082 |
| Missouri | #324 | 14 | 1 in 2,324 |
| Minnesota | #329 | 12 | 1 in 2,357 |
| Virginia | #370 | 14 | 1 in 2,650 |
| Washington | #377 | 12 | 1 in 2,457 |
| Oklahoma | #392 | 7 | 1 in 2,464 |
| Michigan | #418 | 19 | 1 in 3,181 |
| Oregon | #420 | 6 | 1 in 2,678 |
| North Carolina | #425 | 13 | 1 in 3,130 |
| Pennsylvania | #433 | 21 | 1 in 3,420 |
| Colorado | #486 | 6 | 1 in 3,430 |
| Illinois | #512 | 21 | 1 in 3,681 |
| Arizona | #555 | 7 | 1 in 3,633 |
| Texas | #625 | 29 | 1 in 4,599 |
| Louisiana | #708 | 5 | 1 in 5,151 |
| California | #947 | 29 | 1 in 8,413 |
| New York | #1,038 | 12 | 1 in 9,899 |
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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 Kala
- 1,014 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #9,457)
- 3,970 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #9,457)
- 4,873 spots since 2015 (#4,584 → #9,457)
- Biggest jump: 1,197 spots in 1982 (#1,958 → #761)
- Biggest drop: 174 spots in 1984 (#624 → #798)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1989 at #462 (525 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1982–1997
- Highest: 1 in 3,512 girls born in 1989 were named Kala (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.0% of all girls named Kala (2,996) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 50 | #3,350 (1948) | #4,040 |
| 1950s | 149 | #2,376 (1958) | #3,158 |
| 1960s | 298 | #2,015 (1963) | #2,205 |
| 1970s | 425 | #1,772 (1971) | #2,083 |
| 1980s | 2,664 | #462 (1989) | #904 |
| 1990s | 2,996 | #543 (1990) | #772 |
| 2000s | 784 | #1,270 (2000) | #2,780 |
| 2010s | 225 | #4,584 (2015) | #5,900 |
| 2020s | 89 | #5,487 (2020) | #7,598 |
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.
Kala in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 3,512 of them was named Kala, which outranked 96.8% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 250,116 of them was named Kala, which outranked 39.2% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).