Keliyah

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

Keliyah by the numbers

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

Its American peak was 17 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Keliyah

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

  • Keziyahgod is my strength; a form of Hezekiah9 in the US (2017)
  • Kelilahcrown; a form of Kelila3 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Kaliyah503 in the US (2017)
  • Keniyah24 in the US (2017)
  • Kemiyah22 in the US (2017)
  • Keliah8 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Keliyah

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