Kael

Last seen for girls in 2015 at #14,482 · #903 for boys in 2025, 263 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time

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Peak · boys
2009 · 251 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,055
since 1969

Kael over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Kael has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202016peak #850, 2009boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#903263
2024#1,472123
2023#1,662103
2022#2,26963
2021#2,07970
2020#1,97772
2019#1,592104
2018#1,418123
2017#1,69593
2016#1,456118
2015#14,4826#1,340131
2014#1,174159
2013#1,155156
2012#993200
2011#983199
2010#971203
2009#850251
2008#855248
2007#17,6365#1,053178
2006#17,1685#851236
2005#1,032163
2004#1,090145
2003#1,090142
2002#1,191117
2001#1,64871
2000#2,62135
1999#3,59121
1998#4,19716
1997#3,73818
1996#4,18515
1995#3,85416
1994#3,91116
1993#4,22714
1992#5,23610
1991#3,46217
1990#5,3829
1989#3,61815
1988#4,45010
1987#3,95911
1986#3,44013
1985#2,82817
1984#4,5528
1983#4,1419
1982#6,3855
1981#5,4686
1980#5,5256
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First appearance
1969

The first year at least five boys were named Kael! It came in at #3,314, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1970–1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Kael
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 569 spots since 2024 (#1,472#903)
  • 1,074 spots since 2020 (#1,977#903)
  • 437 spots since 2015 (#1,340#903)
  • Biggest jump: 569 spots in 2025 (#1,472#903)
  • Biggest drop: 202 spots in 2007 (#851#1,053)
Rise & fade · boys
40 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1969
  • Peaked 2009 at #850 (251 births)
  • Births halved by 2016, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2008–2012
Share of babies · boys
1 in 6,495
  • Highest: 1 in 6,495 boys born in 2025 were named Kael (0.02%)
  • Its best rank, #850 in 2009, was only 1 in 7,903 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 39.1% of all boys named Kael (1,586) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s8#3,314 (1969)#3,314
1970s29#4,309 (1975)#4,916
1980s100#2,828 (1985)#4,437
1990s152#3,462 (1991)#4,178
2000s1,586#850 (2009)#1,228
2010s1,486#971 (2010)#1,278
2020s694#903 (2025)#1,727

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Kael in 2016

boys
#1,456
118 births · 1 in 16,083 boys

Top boys' names in 2016

  1. #1Noah19,188
  2. #2Liam18,277
  3. #3William15,810
  4. #4Mason15,287
  5. #5James14,920
  6. #6Benjamin14,686
  7. #7Jacob14,559
  8. #8Michael14,145
  9. #9Elijah13,982
  10. #10Ethan13,855
  11. #1,456Kael118
More about 2016

boys

1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 16,083 of them was named Kael, which outranked 89.8% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kael
  1. #1,450Jakai119
  2. #1,450Korben119
  3. #1,450Wolfgang119
  4. #1,456Kael118
  5. #1,456Chayce118
  6. #1,456Floyd118
  7. #1,456Graeme118
  8. #1,467Amias117
  9. #1,467Dakari117
  10. #1,467Damir117

Tied with 10 names at #1,456; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2015
Risers
  1. 2,327Kylo#3,231#904
  2. 355Creed#1,340#985
  3. 349Benicio#1,327#978
  4. 303Adonis#698#395
  5. 291Fox#1,035#744
Fallers
  1. 477Jonael#922#1,399
  2. 238Aaden#784#1,022
  3. 233Triston#950#1,183
  4. 223Freddy#993#1,216
  5. 207Chace#934#1,141

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2016