Kalaiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kah-LY-ah
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #5,553 for girls
Kalaiya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).
Where does Kalaiya come from?
Modern: modern coinage related to Kaliyah and Kalaya
Is Kalaiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Kalaiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kalaiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,553rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 22 about 1 in 73,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 2% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Kalaiya, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. It first appears in the records in 2008.
2025 had the most girls named Kalaiya of any year since it first appeared, in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Kalaiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kalaiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,553 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,321 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
Names like Kalaiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amoura, Zaliyah, Zhamira, Kaliyah, Zaniyah, Kamiyah, Zaiya, Zayla, Aziyah, Alaiyah, Zalayah, Zamira
Names related to Kalaiya
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, “Kalaiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kalaiya, updated 20 October 2026.