Kalah Popularity by Year

Follow Kalah across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Kalah birth-count history

The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.

Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
2014	Girls	5	#16,513	Up 781 places
2009	Girls	5	#17,294	Down 10,221 places
2008	Girls	18	#7,073	Up 1,934 places
2007	Girls	13	#9,007	Down 770 places
2006	Girls	14	#8,237	Up 93 places
2005	Girls	13	#8,330	Up 934 places
2004	Girls	11	#9,264	Down 759 places
2003	Girls	12	#8,505	Down 3,599 places
2002	Girls	24	#4,906	Up 1,161 places
2001	Girls	18	#6,067	Down 1,086 places
2000	Girls	23	#4,981	Down 1,011 places
1999	Girls	29	#3,970	Down 240 places
1998	Girls	31	#3,730	Down 506 places
1997	Girls	36	#3,224	Up 78 places
1996	Girls	35	#3,302	Down 786 places
1995	Girls	50	#2,516	Up 786 places
1994	Girls	34	#3,302	Down 364 places
1993	Girls	40	#2,938	Up 206 places
1992	Girls	36	#3,144	Down 788 places
1991	Girls	54	#2,356	Up 284 places
1990	Girls	44	#2,640	Up 405 places
1989	Girls	35	#3,045	Down 448 places
1988	Girls	41	#2,597	Up 126 places
1987	Girls	36	#2,723	Up 1,305 places
1986	Girls	20	#4,028	Down 176 places
1985	Girls	21	#3,852	Up 466 places
1984	Girls	17	#4,318	Down 369 places
1983	Girls	19	#3,949	Up 218 places
1982	Girls	18	#4,167	Up 6,244 places
1981	Girls	5	#10,411	Down 19 places
1980	Girls	5	#10,392	Down 1,382 places
1979	Girls	6	#9,010	Up 642 places
1977	Girls	5	#9,652	Down 368 places
1976	Girls	5	#9,284	—