first name
KALIYAH
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 6,843 people named Kaliyah, 70.2% reported their origin as Black, 12.9% as two or more races and 8.9% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Kaliyah peaked in 2025, when 791 babies got the name.
At least 12,951 babies have been given the name since 1994. 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.
Kaliyah by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #1,008. The largest share of babies named Kaliyah, 58.1%, were born in 2013 or later.
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 Kaliyah is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kaliyah has been most common in Florida (2.7×), Mississippi (2.4×), and Georgia (2.2×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.27×).
11,803 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.
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