Kalene
Kalene was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 724 Americans have been recorded with it between 1954 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,258, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
204 babies in 1993, the peak
Kalene peaked in 1993, when 204 girls were given it, #928 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #16,258 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,469 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,759 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,985 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,854 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,572 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,422 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,866 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,710 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,635 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 23 | #4,503 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,899 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,728 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 204 | #928 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,294 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,794 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,157 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,956 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,367 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,514 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,348 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,179 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,681 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,610 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,347 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,712 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,504 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,009 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,690 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,352 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,249 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,871 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,611 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,326 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,705 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,130 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,060 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,384 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,879 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,305 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,151 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,508 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,722 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,262 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,151 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalene, and how old are they?
An estimated 694 Americans named Kalene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 32 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 663 people named Kalene (657 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 698 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 28,721 babies since 1880, Kalene is the sixth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,090 babies recorded by SSA was a Kalene (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kalene
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 Kalene and names like it
- Compare Kalene and KalaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKalene peaked in 1993.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalene since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Kalene.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kalene alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.