Caliyah

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 103 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
103
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#3705
6 babies

Caliyah by the numbers

In 2025, 6 babies in England and Wales were named Caliyah. In the US, 103 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 103 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Caliyah

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Caliyah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Camiyahyoung ceremonial attendant; a form of Camila50 in the US (2017)
  • Caliah22 in the US (2017)
  • Calayah3 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Caliya8 in the US (2017)
  • Carliyah8 in the US (2017)
  • Caniyah7 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Caliyah

Names that are said the same way as Caliyah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Caliyah

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