girls:
11.4k births since 1994
#1471 (74th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2004
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
11.4k births since 1994
#2460 (68th percentile)
The name Kaliyah is the #2,460 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,447 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 68.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,471 (74.3% percentile) for all time with 11,442 births since 1994. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2004.
Kaliyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (1994 for girls and 2004 for boys).
The name Kaliyah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kaliyah reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 52.4% percentile (ranked #451) with 341 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 341 births per million (ranked 52.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Kaliyah is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #451 (52.4% percentile) with 341 births per million.
For boys, Kaliyah reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #847) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kaliyah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Kaliyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.7% confident that Kaliyah is pronounced as kah-LEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-LEE-uh, at 26.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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