Kael
Kael was given to 263 boys in 2025, #903 among boys’ names; 4,071 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,020 Americans named Kael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 20.
Kael climbed 573 places in 2025, the #6 climb among the boys’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kael?
#903 among boys’ names, 2025
Kael rose from #1,344 in 2015 to #903 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.15 per 1,000.
263 babies in 2025, the peak
Kael peaked in 2025, when 263 boys were given it, #903 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 123 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 263 | #903 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,476 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 103 | #1,665 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,282 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,086 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 72 | #1,986 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 104 | #1,598 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 123 | #1,427 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 93 | #1,700 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,459 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 131 | #1,344 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 159 | #1,177 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 156 | #1,157 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 200 | #997 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 199 | #984 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 203 | #971 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 251 | #851 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 248 | #859 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 178 | #1,055 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 236 | #852 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 163 | #1,033 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 145 | #1,090 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,091 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 117 | #1,196 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 71 | #1,647 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 35 | #2,647 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,640 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,296 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,807 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,279 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,953 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,005 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,348 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,430 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,536 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,586 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,716 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,597 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,088 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,541 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,889 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,762 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,317 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,854 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,864 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,893 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,418 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,478 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,557 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,473 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,357 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,445 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kael has been given almost only to boys: 16 girls in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kael, and how old are they?
4,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,071 Americans ever recorded as Kael. The median Kael alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 3,243 people named Kael (82 women and girls, 3,161 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,357 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 39 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 182 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,570 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kael born?
The states with the most babies named Kael are Texas, Florida and New York, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 47 | #645 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 27 | #630 | 0.8× |
| New York | 23 | #649 | 0.4× |
| California | 22 | #1,001 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 11 | #773 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #626 | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 10 | #657 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 10 | #884 | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #964 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #972 | 0.1× |
Where Kael is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kael is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1969 it was given 4.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kael with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 23,877 babies since 1880, Kael is the third most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 263 of their 1,167 babies (23%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kael
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kael and names like it
- Compare Kael and CalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKael peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kael since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kael.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kael alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.