How rare is the name Kalia?

4,427 people in the United States have the first name Kalia, about 1 in 68,225. It ranks #4,290 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

KALIA

#4,290

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,427
About
1 in 68,225
This common or more
83.8%
Who bears it

Of the 4,427 people named Kalia, 34.1% reported their origin as Black, 19.7% as White and 16% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.1% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kalia peaked in 2008, when 229 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19632025
Peak year
2008
Births that year
229
In 2025*
229
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,870 babies have been given the name since 1963. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Kalia by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #2,227. The largest share of babies named Kalia, 43.5%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#17,2535
1970s#10,44966
1980s#4,963289
1990s#3,318723
2000s#2,2981,701
2010s#2,3021,873
2020s#2,2271,213
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–801.4%
Millennials 1981–9612.7%
Generation Z 1997–1243.5%
2013 and later42.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kalia is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kalia has been most common in Hawaii (16×), California (2.9×), and Florida (2.8×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.3×).

3,626 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Kalia

1 other first name also has 4,427 people.

#4,290 Nyah · 4,427

Either side of Kalia

#4,288 Kat · 4,432#4,289 Joeseph · 4,431#4,290 Nyah · 4,427#4,292 Tanesha · 4,426

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kalia, most common first.

#1,444 Kali · 23,482#2,976 Kala · 7,549#3,995 Kalie · 4,872#5,223 Kalea · 3,328#8,920 Kaliah · 1,595#13,752 Kahlia · 871#16,187 Kaliya · 701#16,275 Kaylia · 696

Also a last name

As a last name, Kalia ranks #34,665 of 156,621, with 703 people. See Kalia as a last name

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