Kalel
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #9,736 · #1,159 for boys in 2025, 180 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 257 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,400since 1996
Kalel over time
Rank among boys' names. Kalel has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,159 | 180 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,122 | 190 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,088 | 197 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,002 | 222 | |
| 2021 | — | #977 | 227 | |
| 2020 | — | #986 | 216 | |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #935 | 233 |
| 2018 | — | #981 | 211 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #876 | 245 |
| 2016 | — | #885 | 247 | |
| 2015 | — | #896 | 243 | |
| 2014 | — | #859 | 257 | |
| 2013 | — | #962 | 208 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,182 | 153 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,088 | 171 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,102 | 174 | |
| 2009 | — | #978 | 203 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,046 | 181 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,053 | 178 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,091 | 161 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,838 | 70 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,193 | 53 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,470 | 42 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,755 | 34 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,321 | 26 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,536 | 23 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,103 | 26 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,466 | 11 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,100 | 9 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kalel! It came in at #5,982, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1996–1998, when fewer than 12 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kalel
- 37 spots since 2024 (#1,122 → #1,159)
- 173 spots since 2020 (#986 → #1,159)
- 263 spots since 2015 (#896 → #1,159)
- Biggest jump: 220 spots in 2013 (#1,182 → #962)
- Biggest drop: 124 spots in 2010 (#978 → #1,102)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2014 at #859 (257 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2013–2021
- Highest: 1 in 7,474 boys born in 2014 were named Kalel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,489 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 48.7% of all boys named Kalel (2,142) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 55 | #3,103 (1999) | #5,163 |
| 2000s | 971 | #978 (2009) | #2,028 |
| 2010s | 2,142 | #859 (2014) | #977 |
| 2020s | 1,232 | #977 (2021) | #1,056 |
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.
Kalel in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 8,607 of them was named Kalel, which outranked 93.1% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).