Caleah
Feminine
Caleah joins a Cal- opening to a -leah ending, and Leah at the back is one of the four matriarchs of Genesis.
How old is the name Caleah?
Caleah first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Caleah is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Caleah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Caleah most popular?
Caleah peaked in 2013, reaching #3404 nationally. Today it ranks #4352, 948 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Caleah
Ours, offered as ours. Caleah is a good example of a compound whose two halves have wildly different ages: Leah is a name from Genesis with three thousand years of continuous use behind it, and Cal- is a syllable that came loose from Callie and California within living memory. Joined, they read as a single modern name and nobody hearing it would guess that half of it is that old.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established for the compound. Leah is documented, generally read as weary. The Cal- opening comes from Callie or California in modern American naming. Neither is documented as the source of this name.
Pronouncing Caleah
kuh-LEE-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families say KAL-ee-ah.
Nicknames for Caleah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1983
- Most girls named
- 201346 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3404reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- +52.4%32 in 2025, from 21
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Caleah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Le'ah in Hebrew — related form
- Calia in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, Tennessee.
Caleahs among us
people named Caleah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was named Caleah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Caleah
- #4352
- Caleah on the 2025 chart
- #568
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Caleah went to 32 girls in 2025, but Kalea, Kaleah and Khalea and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 8 spellings went to 429, which makes it the 568th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,784 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 3,747 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 50,227 for Caleah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Waleska test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Caleah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Waleska climbed just as high around 1972, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Waleska's path sketches the road Caleah is walking now.
Caleah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Caleah is headed
Caleah is easing off slowly — about 19% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Caleah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Caleah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Cal and Leah are both complete names in their own right.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- The stress is unsettled between the first and second syllables.
- Caleah, Calia and Kaleah are all in use and none is dominant.
- There is no documented meaning for the compound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Caleahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Caleah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Caleah?
- Caleah is one of 8 recorded spellings. Kalea is the more common one — 185 births in 2025 against 32 for Caleah.
- How popular is the name Caleah in 2025?
- Caleah ranks #4352 among US girl names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Caleah?
- About 1 in every 50,227 US girls born in 2025 was named Caleah — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Caleah with classmates?
- Caleah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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