Kahliya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kah-LEE-yah
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Kahliya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
Where does Kahliya come from?
Modern: spelling of Kahliyah, itself a variant of Kaliyah, blending Kali with the sound of Aaliyah
Meaning borrowed from Kahliyah.
Is Kahliya a girl's or a boy's name?
Kahliya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kahliya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Kahliya, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had more girls named Kahliya than any year since 2017.
Half of all the girls named Kahliya in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kahliya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,234 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
Names like Kahliya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Kaliyah, Zaliyah, Kamiyah, Safiya, Zaniya, Aziyah, Zayla, Zariya, Safa, Zhamira, Jaliyah
Names related to Kahliya
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, “Kahliya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kahliya, updated 20 October 2026.