girls:
67 births since 1995
#5649 (1st percentile)
boys:
259 births since 1997
#4327 (6th percentile)
overall:
326 births since 1995
#7413 (4th percentile)
The name Kalijah is the #7,413 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 326 recorded births since 1995. This represents the 4.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,327 (5.6% percentile) for all time with 259 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #5,649 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 67 births since 1995.
Kalijah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1995 (1995 for girls and 1997 for boys). Birth data for Kalijah is available in 26 out of the 29 years between 1995 and 2023 (24 years for boys and 10 years for girls). 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.
The name Kalijah has been given predominantly to boys, with 79.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Kalijah were boys. Interestingly, until around 2001, the name was more popular for girls (67.6% girls from 1995 to 2000), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (85.5% boys from 2001 to 2023).
For boys, Kalijah reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #810) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kalijah ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 73.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kalijah reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #882) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kalijah".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kalijah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.7% confident that Kalijah is pronounced as kuh-LEE-juh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-LAI-juh, at 43.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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