In 2025, 49 US girls were named Khaliyah, making it the 3,227th most common girls’ name of the year, down 83 places from #3,144 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 51 girls named Khaliyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,342, reached in 2019. The most girls given the name in a single year was 78, in 2009. For comparison, it was #2,633 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Khaliyah in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 10 babies. In all, 1,602 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 648 babies named Khaliyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 595 US girls were named Khaliyah; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 77. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,801 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Khalia (3,579 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Khaleyah and Chaliyah are summarised on this page.