Kala
Kala reached its high-water mark in 1989 at number 462, and has been recorded 7,772 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 9,457th. About 7,500 Kalas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kala boys named Kala
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,772
- Estimated living today
- 7,500
- Median age today
- 35
- Peak year
- 1989
- Best rank
- 462nd
- Rank in 2025
- 9,457th
- First recorded
- 1943
- Girls / boys
- 7,680 / 92
How old the living Kalas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,772 babies given the name since 1943, about 7,500 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Kala is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kala is most concentrated in Mississippi (2.5×), Tennessee (2.3×), Alabama (2.3×), South Carolina (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1989
The most popular girls’ names the year Kala peaked:
Kala elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Kala | 39 | 3,218th |
| Poland girls | Kala | 15 birth registrations | 570th |
| France girls | Kala | 5 | 7,526th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Kala: rank by region
In 2021, Kala was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wielkopolskie | Kala | 243 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Where Kala lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 304 women called Kala were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Kala | 32 | 0.051 | 1,271 |
| Gipuzkoa | Kala | 16 | 0.043 | 1,352 |
| Cantabria | Kala | 9 | 0.029 | 1,432 |
| Girona | Kala | 11 | 0.027 | 1,917 |
| Bizkaia | Kala | 16 | 0.027 | 1,770 |
| Barcelona | Kala | 72 | 0.024 | 1,976 |
Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Kala against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.