Kilah
- #6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 20 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 457since 1979
Kilah over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Kilah has never cracked the top 5,000 here.
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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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 |
| 2007 | #7,394 | 17 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 |
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| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
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| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 |
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First appearance
1979
The first year at least five girls were named Kilah! It came in at #6,696, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1984, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kilah is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Kilah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Rising
- 2,400 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #6,546)
- 5,596 spots since 2020 (#12,142 → #6,546)
- 2,385 spots since 2015 (#8,931 → #6,546)
Rise & fade · girls
25 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2004 at #5,969 (20 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 83,505
- Highest: 1 in 83,505 girls born in 2009 were named Kilah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #5,969 in 2004, was only 1 in 91,813 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 37.2% of all girls named Kilah (170) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 9 | #6,696 (1979) | #6,696 |
| 1980s | 27 | #8,318 (1985) | #10,476 |
| 1990s | 66 | #6,360 (1998) | #9,397 |
| 2000s | 170 | #5,969 (2004) | #7,006 |
| 2010s | 127 | #6,182 (2010) | #9,437 |
| 2020s | 58 | #6,546 (2025) | #10,438 |
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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