Kalilah
- #1,673 for girls in 2025, 123 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 123 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 884since 1976
Kalilah over time
Rank among girls' names. Kalilah has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,673 | 123 |
| 2024 | #1,895 | 105 |
| 2023 | #3,047 | 54 |
| 2022 | #3,416 | 46 |
| 2021 | #3,491 | 44 |
| 2020 | #3,915 | 36 |
| 2019 | #2,891 | 57 |
| 2018 | #4,458 | 31 |
| 2017 | #3,996 | 37 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 |
| 2015 | #6,452 | 19 |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 |
| 2011 | #6,564 | 19 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 |
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| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 |
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| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
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| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 |
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| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 |
| 1977 | #4,235 | 16 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kalilah! It came in at #6,611, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kalilah is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#384 · 1 in 1,271
- Oklahoma#697 · 1 in 2,956
- Indiana#916 · 1 in 4,651
- Michigan#965 · 1 in 5,104
- Ohio#1,134 · 1 in 6,753
Best ever in a state: #384 in Mississippi, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #384 | 7 | 1 in 1,271 |
| Oklahoma | #697 | 5 | 1 in 2,956 |
| Indiana | #916 | 6 | 1 in 4,651 |
| Michigan | #965 | 7 | 1 in 5,104 |
| Ohio | #1,134 | 7 | 1 in 6,753 |
| Virginia | #1,180 | 5 | 1 in 6,748 |
| Georgia | #1,533 | 5 | 1 in 9,042 |
| Florida | #1,685 | 7 | 1 in 12,395 |
| Texas | #1,714 | 13 | 1 in 12,349 |
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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 Kalilah
- 222 spots since 2024 (#1,895 → #1,673)
- 2,242 spots since 2020 (#3,915 → #1,673)
- 4,779 spots since 2015 (#6,452 → #1,673)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2025 at #1,673 (123 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,067 girls born in 2025 were named Kalilah (0.01%)
- 46.2% of all girls named Kalilah (408) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 39 | #4,235 (1977) | #5,102 |
| 1980s | 42 | #5,544 (1980) | #8,906 |
| 1990s | 43 | #8,334 (1997) | #10,864 |
| 2000s | 106 | #7,998 (2003) | #9,880 |
| 2010s | 246 | #2,891 (2019) | #6,128 |
| 2020s | 408 | #1,673 (2025) | #2,906 |
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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