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Kaleeyah

Gender
Girl
Say it
kuh-LEE-uh
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Kaleeyah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

Where does Kaleeyah come from?

Modern: spelling of Kaleyah; modern variant of Kaylee or Khaleah

Meaning borrowed from Kaleyah.

Is Kaleeyah a girl's or a boy's name?

Kaleeyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kaleeyah in the US?

Rank in 2025
13,203rd among girls
Babies in 2025
6 about 1 in 270,000 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, 6 girls in the US were named Kaleeyah, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.

2025 had more girls named Kaleeyah than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Kaleeyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 104 girls in the US were given Kaleeyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,644, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.

2003Busiest: 13 in 20122025
Kaleeyah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20240–
20230–
20225#15,300
20210–
20209#10,245
20195#15,532
201811#9,146
20170–
20166#14,326
201511#9,476
20148#11,925
20137#13,145
201213#8,628
201111#9,719
201010#10,446
20098#12,423
20086#15,399
200712#9,535
20065#17,163
20050–
20040–
20035#15,777

Names like Kaleeyah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Kaleeyah

Names related to Kaleeyah

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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, “Kaleeyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaleeyah, updated 20 October 2026.