# Kaliyah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kaliyah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 12,951 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 12,946 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 390, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 538 | 542 |
| 2012 | 562 | 537 |
| 2013 | 577 | 516 |
| 2014 | 565 | 548 |
| 2015 | 576 | 543 |
| 2016 | 501 | 601 |
| 2017 | 506 | 592 |
| 2018 | 589 | 534 |
| 2019 | 548 | 555 |
| 2020 | 522 | 564 |
| 2021 | 550 | 558 |
| 2022 | 498 | 602 |
| 2023 | 596 | 508 |
| 2024 | 705 | 442 |
| 2025 | 791 | 392 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | 12,291 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | 1,807 |
| 2012 | 5 | 4,171 |
| 2013 | 19 | 1,587 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,966 |
| 2015 | 13 | 2,070 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1,689 |
| 2017 | 15 | 1,911 |
| 2018 | 18 | 1,649 |
| 2019 | 18 | 1,634 |
| 2020 | 22 | 1,397 |
| 2021 | 25 | 1,286 |
| 2022 | 21 | 1,452 |
| 2023 | 29 | 1,135 |
| 2024 | 38 | 934 |
| 2025 | 53 | 696 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.