Kaleo
Kaleo was given to 265 boys in 2025, #898 among boys’ names; 2,257 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,230 Americans named Kaleo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 17.
Kaleo climbed 203 places in 2025, the #24 climb among the boys’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaleo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaleo mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Kaleo is “a male or (formerly) female given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the senses “the” (ka) and “voice, tune” (leo).
ka (“the”) + leo (“voice, tune”); also a short form of compound given names beginning thus.
/kaˈle.o/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaleo?
#898 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaleo rose from #2,263 in 2015 to #898 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.03 to 0.16 per 1,000.
270 babies in 2025, the peak
Kaleo peaked in 2025, when 270 babies were given it (265 boys, #898 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 196 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 265 | #898 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 196 | #1,101 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 140 | #1,353 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 137 | #1,370 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 120 | #1,493 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 112 | #1,507 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 108 | #1,556 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 100 | #1,635 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 88 | #1,755 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 75 | #1,948 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59 | #2,263 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 52 | #2,443 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,054 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,178 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 52 | #2,423 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,662 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 47 | #2,637 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 45 | #2,737 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,741 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,122 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 37 | #2,868 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,800 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,155 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,854 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,400 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,288 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,227 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,763 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,145 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,745 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,168 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,007 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,138 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,878 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,897 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,279 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,454 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,089 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,264 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,924 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,381 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,313 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,733 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,725 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,532 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,283 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,029 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,123 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,605 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,801 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,282 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaleo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaleo has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 51 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kaleo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaleo, and how old are they?
2,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,257 Americans ever recorded as Kaleo. The median Kaleo alive today is 8 years old; half are between 3 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,321 people named Kaleo (58 women and girls, 1,263 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,293 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 41 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 126 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 549 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,510 |
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 Kaleo born?
The states with the most babies named Kaleo are California, Texas and Florida, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 52 | #577 | 2.2× |
| Texas | 26 | #944 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 14 | #983 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 14 | #507 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 13 | #550 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 11 | #774 | 0.1× |
| Hawaii | 9 | #115 | 28.8× |
| Colorado | 8 | #652 | 0.6× |
| New York | 8 | #1,355 | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,043 | 0.1× |
Where Kaleo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaleo is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1971 it was given 28.8 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 Kaleo 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 19,537 babies since 1880, Kaleo is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 270 of their 431 babies (63%), the 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 Kaleo
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 Kaleo and names like it
- Compare Kaleo and CaleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKaleo peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaleo since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Kaleo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kaleo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaleo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.