Feminine dossier · first seen 1943

Kala

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Kala
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 97.7% from peak

Peak era

1989

Peak rank proxy

525

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Millennial

1943Peak 19892024

Peak year

1989

Decline from peak

97.7%

2024

All-time

7,670

Kala once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1989, when 525 girls were named Kala.

In 2024, only 12 girls were given the name.

Down 97.7% from its peak.

All told, about 7,670 Americans have been named Kala and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1943.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationMillennial

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 97.7% from peak

1989525 girls named Kala

202412 girls named Kala

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