Kaleel
Kaleel was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,633 among boys’ names; 555 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaleel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaleel?
#6,633 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaleel rose from #10,072 in 2015 to #6,633 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 7.6 per million.
30 babies in 1997, the peak
Kaleel peaked in 1997, when 30 boys were given it, #2,642 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,633 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,390 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,342 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,498 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,350 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,814 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,883 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,138 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,488 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,269 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #10,072 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,143 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,443 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,143 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,782 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,938 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,838 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,469 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,720 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,478 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,429 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,887 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,405 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,970 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,904 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,580 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,078 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,236 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,642 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,642 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,587 | 15.2 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,392 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,577 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,389 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaleel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaleel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaleel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaleel, and how old are they?
An estimated 545 Americans named Kaleel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 13 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 424 people named Kaleel (6 women and girls, 418 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 489 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 12,481 babies since 1880, Kaleel is the fifth most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 546 babies (2.4%), the sixth 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 Kaleel
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 Kaleel and names like it
- Compare Kaleel and KalelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaleel peaked in 1997.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaleel since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Kaleel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaleel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.