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Keliah

Gender
Girl
Say it
KEL-ee-uh
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#9,454 for girls

Keliah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).

Where does Keliah come from?

Modern: spelling of Kelia; modern coinage, perhaps from Kelly or Kalia

Meaning borrowed from Kelia.

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

Keliah 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 Keliah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,454among girls
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 160,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Keliah, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2004, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.

2025 had more girls named Keliah than any year since 2007.

Half of all the girls named Keliah in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

1999Busiest: 13 in 20042025
Keliah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202510#9,454
20246#13,472
20236#13,456
20225#15,300
20215#15,246
20205#15,083
20190–
20186#13,788
20178#11,611
20167#12,871
20150–
20147#13,063
20130–
20129#11,251
20119#11,175
20105#16,985
20090–
20087#13,827
200711#10,125
20068#12,415
200511#9,447
200413#8,254
200311#9,043
20027#12,181
20019#10,095
20008#10,738
19995#14,403

Names like Keliah

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

Names related to Keliah

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