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.
Where Kalel is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Florida#459 · 1 in 2,707
- Nevada#509 · 1 in 2,568
- Utah#581 · 1 in 3,226
- Arizona#615 · 1 in 3,715
- North Carolina#624 · 1 in 3,858
Best ever in a state: #350 in Nevada, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #459 | 35 | 1 in 2,707 |
| Nevada | #509 | 5 | 1 in 2,568 |
| Utah | #581 | 6 | 1 in 3,226 |
| Arizona | #615 | 9 | 1 in 3,715 |
| North Carolina | #624 | 13 | 1 in 3,858 |
| Pennsylvania | #763 | 10 | 1 in 5,586 |
| New Jersey | #783 | 7 | 1 in 5,679 |
| Texas | #786 | 30 | 1 in 5,818 |
| California | #810 | 30 | 1 in 6,772 |
| Washington | #843 | 6 | 1 in 5,678 |
| New York | #945 | 13 | 1 in 7,196 |
| Georgia | #1,025 | 7 | 1 in 7,420 |
| Ohio | #1,256 | 5 | 1 in 11,314 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 167,837 of them was named Kalel, which outranked 46.0% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,112Zolah11
- #9,112Zowie11
- #9,112Zuly11
- #9,736Kalel10
- #9,736Aala10
- #9,736Aalyiah10
- #9,736Aashritha10
- #10,473Aadhyasri9
- #10,473Aaima9
- #10,473Aakriti9
Tied with 736 names at #9,736; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 7,700 of them was named Kalel, which outranked 93.4% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).