How Many People Are Named Kalayah?

1,433

people named Kalayah are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 238,510 people in the US has this name

Based on 1,442 babies named Kalayah in Social Security records from 1998 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#8,377

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#4,670

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Peak Year

2024

140 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Kalayah in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Kalayah alive today is about 7 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 2 and 11 in 2025.

Under 30 1,433
100%
30 to 59 0
0%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Kalayah first appears in the records in 1998 and was given most often in 2024, to 140 babies. In 2025, 129 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1998 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Kalayah has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,531, in 2024. In 2025 it ranked #1,617.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,617
Best rank#1,531 (2024)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,695 in the 2020s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Kalayah alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Kalayah were born in California than in any other state: about 135 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kalayah was given 3 times as often in North Carolina, 2.5 times in Ohio and 1.8 times in California.

California 135
Texas 72
Florida 59
North Carolina 58
Ohio 51
Georgia 44
Michigan 38
Virginia 18
South Carolina 18
Alabama 17
New York 15
Illinois 13
Indiana 9
Pennsylvania 6
Missouri 5
Louisiana 5
Minnesota 5

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