How popular is “Kalayah” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Kalayah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kalayah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kalayah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Kalayah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1998	7	0.000001903	7	100%
2000	9	0.000002381	9	100%
2002	14	0.000003745	14	100%
2003	15	0.000003945	15	100%
2004	13	0.000003402	13	100%
2005	15	0.000003901	15	100%
2006	29	0.00000733	29	100%
2007	26	0.000006504	26	100%
2008	28	0.000007123	28	100%
2009	35	0.000009162	35	100%
2010	42	0.000011364	42	100%
2011	26	0.000007108	26	100%
2012	41	0.00001121	41	100%
2013	54	0.000014812	54	100%
2014	59	0.000015919	59	100%
2015	47	0.0000127	47	100%
2016	55	0.000014992	55	100%
2017	67	0.000018735	67	100%
2018	60	0.000017065	60	100%
2019	76	0.000021896	76	100%
2020	99	0.000029636	99	100%
2021	115	0.000033944	115	100%
2022	124	0.000036652	124	100%
2023	117	0.000035335	117	100%
2024	140	0.000042061	140	100%

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