Entry № 5160 · American origin

Kaliyah Kaliyah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-LEE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
American
Meaning
"Exalted"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "exalted".

Kaliyah is a modern name, kin to the beloved Aaliyah, and warmly associated with the sense of the exalted and highly esteemed.

Graceful and high-flying, Kaliyah rises.

Exalted — a soft modern favourite.

The name in its native script.

Kaliyah
Transliteration
Kaliyah
Pronunciation
/ kaˈli.a /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kaliyah stands.

Kaliyah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kaliyahs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Kaliyah.

The number behind Kaliyah.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kaliyah reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.