Kaliyah

What Kaliyah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Kaliyah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #543 in 2015 to #392 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kaliyah?

US: Rising: up from #543 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2070 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 791 girls got the name (#392 that year). First in the US records in 1994.

How common

• About 1 in 2,032 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,779 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MS (2.25 per 1,000 girls), SC (1.31 per 1,000 girls), NV (1.3 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Kaliyah is #392 in the US and #696 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Kaliyah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kalayah129 US · 13 E&W
• Kalaya109 US · 5 E&W
• Caliyah96 US · 6 E&W
• Kaliya61 US
• Calayah36 US · 3 E&W
• Kalaiya22 US · 4 E&W
• Kaaliyah24 US
• Kaleyah18 US · 5 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Kaliyah

Girls

• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*
• Aaliyah#101Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 18 babies
• Kennedy#85“head + ugly”^*
• Riley#48“rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Zoe#31Variant of Zoë, meaning “life”^*
• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*

For a brother

• Jonah#128“dove”^*
• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Lane#250Editor’s note Up from #297 in 2015 to #250 in 2025 in the US
• Wyatt#38“war + hard, brave”^*
• Griffin#222Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #222 vs #1,035 in 2025
• Noah#2Editor’s note Steady in the US: #1 in 2015 and #2 in 2025. About 1 in 84 US boys in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kaliyah’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.