Kalila
- #3,100 for girls in 2025, 52 births
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 67 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,168since 1977
Kalila over time
Rank among girls' names. Kalila has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #3,100 | 52 |
| 2024 | #3,639 | 42 |
| 2023 | #3,386 | 47 |
| 2022 | #3,703 | 41 |
| 2021 | #2,929 | 57 |
| 2020 | #3,607 | 41 |
| 2019 | #2,593 | 67 |
| 2018 | #2,782 | 61 |
| 2017 | #2,925 | 56 |
| 2016 | #3,523 | 44 |
| 2015 | #3,650 | 42 |
| 2014 | #3,848 | 39 |
| 2013 | #3,778 | 40 |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 |
| 2009 | #7,066 | 18 |
| 2008 | #5,750 | 24 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 |
| 2005 | #5,800 | 21 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 |
| 2003 | #5,419 | 22 |
| 2002 | #5,254 | 22 |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 |
| 1998 | #4,636 | 23 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kalila! It came in at #9,652, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1978, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Kalila is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#1,437 · 1 in 9,297
- Georgia#1,533 · 1 in 9,042
- Texas#2,210 · 1 in 17,838
Best ever in a state: #1,411 in California, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Carolina | #1,437 | 5 | 1 in 9,297 |
| Georgia | #1,533 | 5 | 1 in 9,042 |
| Texas | #2,210 | 9 | 1 in 17,838 |
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See more about Kalila
- 539 spots since 2024 (#3,639 → #3,100)
- 507 spots since 2020 (#3,607 → #3,100)
- 550 spots since 2015 (#3,650 → #3,100)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2019 at #2,593 (67 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 25,050 girls born in 2019 were named Kalila (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,909 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 36.0% of all girls named Kalila (420) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 22 | #5,751 (1979) | #7,988 |
| 1980s | 85 | #5,571 (1981) | #7,871 |
| 1990s | 151 | #4,636 (1998) | #6,325 |
| 2000s | 210 | #5,233 (2006) | #5,884 |
| 2010s | 420 | #2,593 (2019) | #4,005 |
| 2020s | 280 | #2,929 (2021) | #3,394 |
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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