Caliya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ka-LY-a
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Caliya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
Where does Caliya come from?
Modern: spelling of Kaliyah; modern name, probably modelled on Aaliyah
Meaning borrowed from Kaliyah. More on Wiktionary.
Is Caliya a girl's or a boy's name?
Caliya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Caliya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 34% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Caliya, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the girls named Caliya in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 943 girls in the US were given Caliya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #353, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.
Caliya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,208 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
Names like Caliya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amoura, Zaniyah, Zaliyah, Zayla, Zariah, Zariya, Jaliyah, Zaniya, Kamiyah, Safiya, Zhamira, Alaya
Other spellings of Caliya
Names related to Caliya
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Caliya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/caliya, updated 20 October 2026.