Kalijah
- Last seen for girls in 2008 at #12,579
- #4,857 for boys in 2025, 20 births
- Given to boys 81.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 20 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 298since 1997
Kalijah over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,857 | 20 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,067 | 19 | |
| 2023 | — | #6,517 | 13 | |
| 2022 | — | #8,990 | 8 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,776 | 15 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,451 | 16 | |
| 2019 | — | #6,777 | 12 | |
| 2018 | — | #8,819 | 8 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,338 | 13 | |
| 2016 | — | #7,605 | 10 | |
| 2015 | — | #7,491 | 10 | |
| 2014 | — | #7,562 | 10 | |
| 2013 | — | #5,923 | 14 | |
| 2012 | — | #6,626 | 12 | |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | #10,766 | 6 | |
| 2009 | — | #6,095 | 14 | |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #9,788 | 7 |
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| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | — | #8,643 | 7 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #3,974 | 20 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | — | |
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| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #9,265 | 5 |
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First appearance
1997
The first year at least five boys were named Kalijah! It came in at #9,265, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997–1999, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kalijah is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Kalijah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kalijah
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 210 spots since 2024 (#5,067 → #4,857)
- 594 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #4,857)
- 2,634 spots since 2015 (#7,491 → #4,857)
Rise & fade · boys
4 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2001 at #3,974 (20 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 85,404
- Highest: 1 in 85,404 boys born in 2025 were named Kalijah (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,974 in 2001, was only 1 in 97,144 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 34.2% of all boys named Kalijah (102) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2009
- Mostly girls until 2008, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #9,265 (1997) | #9,265 |
| 2000s | 100 | #3,974 (2001) | #7,188 |
| 2010s | 102 | #5,923 (2013) | #7,751 |
| 2020s | 91 | #4,857 (2025) | #6,110 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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