Kahliya

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 10 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
10
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Kahliya by the numbers

Kahliya was given to 10 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 14 babies in 2006, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Kahliya

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 Kahliya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Kahliathe dark goddess; a modern spelling variant of Kali46 in the US (2017)
  • Kaliya39 in the US (2017)
  • Kahlaya10 in the US (2017)
  • Kahlina8 in the US (2017)
  • Kahliyah7 in the US (2017)
  • Kalinarowan tree; mountain ash147 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Kahliya

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

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