Kalib
Kalib was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,179 among boys’ names; 1,545 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,510 Americans named Kalib and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalib by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalib?
#10,179 among boys’ names, 2025
Kalib fell from #3,471 in 2015 to #10,179 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 4.1 per million.
96 babies in 2006, the peak
Kalib peaked in 2006, when 96 boys were given it, #1,545 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,179 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,037 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,984 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,000 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,133 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,519 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,904 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,171 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,477 | 16.9 |
| 2015 | 32 | #3,471 | 16.7 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 29 | #3,655 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,738 | 22.7 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,080 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,250 | 30.5 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,892 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,082 | 33.3 |
| 2008 | 77 | #1,886 | 37.7 |
| 2007 | 73 | #1,935 | 35.2 |
| 2006 | 96 | #1,545 | 46.7 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,094 | 29.5 |
| 2004 | 71 | #1,769 | 35.8 |
| 2003 | 64 | #1,858 | 32.4 |
| 2002 | 85 | #1,487 | 43.8 |
| 2001 | 65 | #1,751 | 33.5 |
| 2000 | 65 | #1,729 | 33.1 |
| 1999 | 59 | #1,737 | 30.7 |
| 1998 | 65 | #1,607 | 34.0 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,147 | 21.7 |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,121 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 32 | #2,419 | 16.8 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,274 | 18.1 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,230 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,769 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,430 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,656 | 12.2 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,905 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,839 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,658 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,448 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,192 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,015 | 3.3 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,284 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,892 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalib a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalib has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalib: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalib, and how old are they?
1,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,545 Americans ever recorded as Kalib. The median Kalib alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,301 people named Kalib (11 women and girls, 1,290 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,469 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 259 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 241 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 420,069 babies since 1880, Kalib is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 6,441 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Kalib
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 Kalib and names like it
- Compare Kalib and CalebBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKalib peaked in 2006.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalib since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Kalib.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalib alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.