Meaning not yet researched.
Caliyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 96 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,906 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,906 in 2017; #1,992 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Caliyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,992 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,906.
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Caliyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 96 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,906 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 106 (2017).
In 2025, 96 US girls were named Caliyah, making it the 1,992nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 320 places from #2,312 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 80 girls named Caliyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,906, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 106. For comparison, it was #2,028 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Caliyah in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 7 babies. In all, 2,037 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 960 babies named Caliyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 945 US girls were named Caliyah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 106. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,742 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Caliyah ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #911 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaliyah (12,951 babies since 1880), Kaliah (2,676 babies since 1880), Calia (1,259 babies since 1880) and Kaliya (1,100 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Caliyah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 7 | #911 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,073 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,248 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,264 | #1,276 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,496 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,574 | #907 |
| New York | 6 | #1,877 | #1,801 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,250 | #2,952 |
| California | 6 | #2,839 | #2,777 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 96 | #1,992 | — | — |
| 2024 | 80 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 2023 | 87 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 2022 | 82 | #2,277 | — | — |
| 2021 | 97 | #1,995 | — | — |
| 2020 | 94 | #1,993 | — | — |
| 2019 | 98 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,956 | — | — |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 2016 | 104 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 2015 | 97 | #2,028 | — | — |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,011 | — | — |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,956 | — | — |
| 2011 | 97 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,389 | — | — |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,652 | — | — |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,754 | — | — |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,894 | — | — |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,515 | — | — |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,345 | — | — |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,301 | — | — |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,345 | — | — |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,119 | — | — |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,744 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,553 | — | — |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,091 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,546 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,755 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,752 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,741 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).