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 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#408 · 1 in 2,030
- Tennessee#485 · 1 in 3,053
- Maryland#493 · 1 in 2,992
- North Carolina#525 · 1 in 3,508
- Georgia#557 · 1 in 3,712
Best ever in a state: #151 in Alabama, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #408 | 6 | 1 in 2,030 |
| Tennessee | #485 | 10 | 1 in 3,053 |
| Maryland | #493 | 8 | 1 in 2,992 |
| North Carolina | #525 | 12 | 1 in 3,508 |
| Georgia | #557 | 12 | 1 in 3,712 |
| Ohio | #591 | 14 | 1 in 4,401 |
| Missouri | #618 | 7 | 1 in 4,241 |
| Michigan | #645 | 11 | 1 in 4,683 |
| Indiana | #830 | 5 | 1 in 6,616 |
| Virginia | #855 | 5 | 1 in 6,782 |
| Illinois | #910 | 10 | 1 in 7,042 |
| Pennsylvania | #921 | 7 | 1 in 8,328 |
| Florida | #957 | 10 | 1 in 7,428 |
| New Jersey | #1,016 | 5 | 1 in 8,297 |
| Texas | #1,521 | 10 | 1 in 14,344 |
| New York | #1,725 | 6 | 1 in 16,787 |
| California | #2,117 | 9 | 1 in 24,557 |
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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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 9,300 of them was named Kala, which outranked 93.7% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).