Khaliya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ka-LY-a
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Khaliya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
Where does Khaliya come from?
Modern: spelling of Kaliyah; modern name, probably modelled on Aaliyah
Meaning borrowed from Kaliyah. More on Wiktionary.
Is Khaliya a girl's or a boy's name?
Khaliya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Khaliya in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2024, with 6 girls.
Khaliya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
How popular is Khaliya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 42% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Khaliya, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,878th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 36 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
2025 had fewer girls named Khaliya than any year since 1999.
Half of all the girls named Khaliya in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 943 girls in the US were given Khaliya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #353, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Khaliya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,224 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,878 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,445 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,189 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,620 |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,068 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,338 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,332 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,889 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,738 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,072 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,050 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,527 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,116 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,509 |
Names like Khaliya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Safiya, Aaliyah, Hafsa, Zainab, Khadija, Hiba, Abeeha, Nusaybah, Ayah, Sumayyah, Ruqayyah
Other spellings of Khaliya
Names related to Khaliya
Khawlah, Khalilah, Kalia, Khalayah, Kalila, Kaliah, Khawla, Khalia, Kaleia, Kalaya, Khali, Kahlia
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Khaliya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khaliya, updated 20 October 2026.