Kaileb
Kaileb was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,312 among boys’ names; 788 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaileb by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaileb?
#11,312 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaileb fell from #3,634 in 2015 to #11,312 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.7 to 3.5 per million.
60 babies in 2009, the peak
Kaileb peaked in 2009, when 60 boys were given it, #2,214 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,312 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,384 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,979 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,632 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,891 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,129 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,394 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,418 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,717 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,476 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,634 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,418 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,454 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,079 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 49 | #2,526 | 25.8 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,706 | 23.5 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,214 | 30.2 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,136 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 33 | #3,344 | 15.9 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,121 | 17.0 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,569 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,108 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,234 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,403 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,101 | 14.9 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,130 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,805 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,774 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,144 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,536 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,317 | 5.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,979 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,939 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,785 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,540 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaileb a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaileb has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaileb: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaileb, and how old are they?
An estimated 777 Americans named Kaileb and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 598 people named Kaileb (9 women and girls, 589 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 723 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 420,372 babies since 1880, Kaileb is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 6,445 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Kaileb
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 Kaileb and names like it
- Compare Kaileb and CalebBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaileb peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaileb since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Kaileb.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaileb alive today were born 1997-2012.
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