Caliyah Girl
How popular is Caliyah?
#1,990 girl name in 2025
96 baby girls were named Caliyah in the US in 2025, making it the 1990th most popular girl name.
Caliyah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,990 for girls (▲ 313 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 96 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-1% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,025 in 2015, #1,991 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2017 (106 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,902 in 2017 |
| First recorded | 1994 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Caliyah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Kaliyah family of names ranked #328 for girls in 2025 (#365 the year before), with 1,001 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kaliyah | 791 | 79% |
| Caliyah | 96 | 10% |
| Kaliya | 61 | 6% |
| Caliya | 10 | 1% |
| Kahliyah | 9 | 1% |
| Kailiyah | 8 | 1% |
| Kalyiah | 12 | 1% |
| Kahliya | 9 | 1% |
| Kayliyah | 5 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Caliyah is most popular
Babies named Caliyah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 0.2 per 1,000 (11 girls)
- Georgia: 0.2 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.1 per 1,000 (17 girls)
- Florida: 0.1 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (19 girls)
Caliyah by decade
Girl names about as popular as Caliyah
Questions
- Is Caliyah a boy or girl name?
- Caliyah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Caliyah were girls.
- How popular is the name Caliyah?
- 96 baby girls were named Caliyah in the US in 2025, making it the 1990th most popular girl name.
- When was Caliyah most popular?
- Caliyah peaked in 2017, when 106 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,902 in 2017.
- How many people are named Caliyah?
- 2,037 babies have been named Caliyah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 2,025 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 11.
- Where is Caliyah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Caliyah was most common in Mississippi, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.