Meaning not yet researched.
Kalea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 185 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,199 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,199 in 2004; #1,224 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kalea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,224 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #1,199.
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Kalea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 185 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,199 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 187 (2004).
In 2025, 185 US girls were named Kalea, making it the 1,224th most common girls’ name of the year, up 141 places from #1,365 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 167 girls named Kalea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,199, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 187. For comparison, it was #1,516 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kalea in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 7 babies. In all, 4,646 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,591 babies named Kalea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,582 US girls were named Kalea; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 185. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,688 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kalea ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #48 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaylee (140,601 babies since 1880), Kali (33,438 babies since 1880), Kailey (27,254 babies since 1880) and Kaley (13,707 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kahleah, Kaleaha and Kaeleah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kahleah (180), Kaleaha (43), Kaeleah (7).
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 Kalea 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 12 | #48 | #71 |
| Nevada | 8 | #352 | — |
| California | 51 | #625 | #942 |
| Arizona | 6 | #970 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,203 | #1,739 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,282 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,351 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,456 | #2,373 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,971 | #2,478 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 185 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 2024 | 167 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 2023 | 158 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 2022 | 164 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 2019 | 161 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 2018 | 142 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 2017 | 160 | #1,427 | — | — |
| 2016 | 163 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 2015 | 149 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 2014 | 149 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 2013 | 158 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 2012 | 171 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 2011 | 170 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 2010 | 168 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 2009 | 166 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 2008 | 183 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 2007 | 178 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 2006 | 178 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 2005 | 167 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 2004 | 187 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 2003 | 132 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 2002 | 113 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 2001 | 104 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 2000 | 81 | #2,041 | — | — |
| 1999 | 78 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,173 | — | — |
| 1997 | 57 | #2,346 | — | — |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,296 | — | — |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,716 | — | — |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,853 | — | — |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,299 | — | — |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,576 | — | — |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,395 | — | — |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,745 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,157 | — | — |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,562 | — | — |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,620 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,896 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,587 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,610 | — | — |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,140 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,047 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,101 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,480 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,254 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,898 | — | — |
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).