Kaleyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kuh-LEE-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #6,324 for girls
Kaleyah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).
Where does Kaleyah come from?
Modern: modern variant of Kaylee or Khaleah
Is Kaleyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Kaleyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kaleyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,324among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18about 1 in 89,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 23% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Kaleyah, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,755th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 32 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
2025 had fewer girls named Kaleyah than any year since 2005.
Half of all the girls named Kaleyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 104 girls in the US were given Kaleyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,644, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.
Kaleyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,870 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,306 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,951 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,755 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,652 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,886 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,043 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,283 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,651 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,449 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,014 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,251 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,465 |
| 2010 | 28 | #4,972 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,088 |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,952 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,942 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,708 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,815 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,571 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,951 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
Names like Kaleyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kaliyah Zaniyah Kamiyah Jaliyah Aaliyah Zaliyah Zariah Hadassah Aziyah Alaiyah Sariyah Naziyah
Other spellings of Kaleyah
Names related to Kaleyah
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, “Kaleyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaleyah, updated 20 October 2026.