Kaliyah

Where Kaliyah comes from

The dictionaries list Kaliyah as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1994
    First appearance
    #3,372 among girls, 33 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #392
    791 babies named Kaliyah — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Kaliyah turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.