girls:
21 births since 2011
#5695 (0th percentile)
overall:
21 births since 2011
#7718 (0th percentile)
The name Caaliyah is the #7,718 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21 recorded births since 2011. This represents the 0.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 2011.
Caaliyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2011 (first recorded for girls in 2011). Birth data for Caaliyah is available in 4 out of the 13 years between 2011 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Caaliyah reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #930) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for girls has remained relatively stable. Currently, Caaliyah ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 91.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Caaliyah".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Caaliyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.1% confident that Caaliyah is pronounced as kah-LEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-LEE-yuh, at 21.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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