Calib — boys' name
515 babies named Calib in U.S. Social Security records since 1983, with the highest year being 2002. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
44% of everyone ever named Calib was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Calib in 2002 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Calib
The Social Security Administration has registered 515 babies named Calib between 1983 and 2020, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Calib currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Calib performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 229 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Calib shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Calib in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Calib in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 515 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Calib at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Calib popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1983
- Peak year (2002)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 38 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
515 total births across 38 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2002 with 30 births in a single year.
Calib by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 229 births that decade — 44% of Calib's all-time total
Calib decade highlights
- Peak decade 229 births
- Runner-up 153 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Calib's strongest decade
229 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
Calib by state
Where Calib concentrates geographically — total births since 1983
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Louisiana | | 5 | 1.0% |
5 of 515 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Louisiana 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Louisiana accounts for 1.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1983–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.