Kaliyah
#392 for girls in 2025, 791 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 791 births
- Debut · girls
- 33 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,946since 1994
Kaliyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaliyah has never cracked the top 300 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #392 | 791 | — | |
| 2024 | #442 | 705 | — | |
| 2023 | #508 | 596 | — | |
| 2022 | #602 | 498 | — | |
| 2021 | #557 | 550 | — | |
| 2020 | #564 | 522 | — | |
| 2019 | #555 | 548 | — | |
| 2018 | #534 | 589 | — | |
| 2017 | #592 | 506 | — | |
| 2016 | #601 | 501 | — | |
| 2015 | #543 | 576 | — | |
| 2014 | #548 | 565 | — | |
| 2013 | #516 | 577 | — | |
| 2012 | #537 | 562 | — | |
| 2011 | #539 | 538 | — | |
| 2010 | #571 | 511 | — | |
| 2009 | #599 | 503 | — | |
| 2008 | #628 | 491 | — | |
| 2007 | #691 | 421 | — | |
| 2006 | #753 | 365 | — | |
| 2005 | #837 | 303 | — | |
| 2004 | #732 | 361 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #771 | 321 | — | |
| 2002 | #780 | 301 | — | |
| 2001 | #920 | 244 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,602 | 110 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,153 | 70 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,083 | 70 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,504 | 108 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,476 | 51 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,244 | 59 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,372 | 33 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaliyah! It came in at #3,372, and was given to 33 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994, when fewer than 34 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaliyah is popular in 2001
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#290 · 1 in 1,296
- Mississippi#432 · 1 in 1,934
- North Carolina#476 · 1 in 2,602
- Wisconsin#524 · 1 in 3,159
- Louisiana#549 · 1 in 2,968
Best ever in a state: #112 in Alaska, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arkansas | #290 | 9 | 1 in 1,296 |
| Mississippi | #432 | 6 | 1 in 1,934 |
| North Carolina | #476 | 17 | 1 in 2,602 |
| Wisconsin | #524 | 8 | 1 in 3,159 |
| Louisiana | #549 | 7 | 1 in 2,968 |
| Michigan | #555 | 14 | 1 in 3,566 |
| Maryland | #577 | 7 | 1 in 3,432 |
| Florida | #583 | 21 | 1 in 3,683 |
| Tennessee | #655 | 7 | 1 in 4,310 |
| Illinois | #662 | 17 | 1 in 4,140 |
| Pennsylvania | #671 | 11 | 1 in 5,090 |
| Missouri | #779 | 5 | 1 in 5,726 |
| Ohio | #816 | 9 | 1 in 6,619 |
| Georgia | #915 | 8 | 1 in 6,030 |
| Virginia | #955 | 5 | 1 in 7,021 |
| New Jersey | #972 | 6 | 1 in 6,900 |
| California | #1,099 | 26 | 1 in 8,549 |
| New York | #1,174 | 11 | 1 in 8,906 |
| Texas | #1,222 | 16 | 1 in 9,576 |
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See more about Kaliyah
- 50 spots since 2024 (#442 → #392)
- 172 spots since 2020 (#564 → #392)
- 151 spots since 2015 (#543 → #392)
- Biggest jump: 682 spots in 2001 (#1,602 → #920)
- Biggest drop: 105 spots in 2005 (#732 → #837)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2025 at #392 (791 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 2001–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,032 girls born in 2025 were named Kaliyah (0.05%)
- 42.3% of all girls named Kaliyah (5,473) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 391 | #1,504 (1997) | #2,305 |
| 2000s | 3,420 | #599 (2009) | #831 |
| 2010s | 5,473 | #516 (2013) | #554 |
| 2020s | 3,662 | #392 (2025) | #511 |
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.
Kaliyah in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 7,380 of them was named Kaliyah, which outranked 94.9% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).