Kalel
Kalel was given to 180 boys in 2025, #1,161 among boys’ names; 4,415 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,380 Americans named Kalel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kalel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kalel is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kalel?
#1,161 among boys’ names, 2025
Kalel fell from #896 in 2015 to #1,161 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.13 to 0.11 per 1,000.
257 babies in 2014, the peak
Kalel peaked in 2014, when 257 boys were given it, #860 among boys’ names. The 180 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 180 | #1,161 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 190 | #1,124 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 197 | #1,091 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 222 | #1,004 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 227 | #978 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 216 | #987 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 233 | #936 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 211 | #983 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 245 | #878 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 247 | #887 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 243 | #896 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 257 | #860 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 208 | #964 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 153 | #1,184 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 171 | #1,089 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 174 | #1,103 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 203 | #980 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 181 | #1,052 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 178 | #1,056 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 161 | #1,095 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 70 | #1,844 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,198 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 42 | #2,485 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,787 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,363 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,581 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,145 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,643 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,358 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,245 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalel has been given almost only to boys: 15 girls in 30 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kalel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalel, and how old are they?
4,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,415 Americans ever recorded as Kalel. The median Kalel alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,760 people named Kalel (60 women and girls, 2,700 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,211 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,870 |
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 Kalel born?
The states with the most babies named Kalel are Texas, Florida and California, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 22 | #1,051 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 20 | #765 | 1.6× |
| California | 17 | #1,174 | 1.0× |
| New York | 13 | #970 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #973 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,068 | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #660 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,390 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,113 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,334 | 0.6× |
Where Kalel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kalel is most over-represented in Florida: since 1996 it was given 1.6 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 Kalel 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 45,525 babies since 1880, Kalel is the second most given (9.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 180 of their 1,511 babies (12%), the third 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 Kalel
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 Kalel and names like it
- Compare Kalel and KhalilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKalel peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalel since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kalel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kalel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.