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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Kala

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#9,765

down −1,079 places

2025 births

10

down −2 births

All-time births

7,680

0% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1989
525 births
Best rank
#462
in 1989
First recorded
1943
#3,998 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1990
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
83 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1989525#462Peak
  2. 1988462#491
  3. 1990438#543
  4. 1991426#551
  5. 1987381#530

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #462 in 1989 · peak births 525 in 1989

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 1% boys■ 99% girls

92 boys · 7,680 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Kala has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.