Kalief — boys' name

What the Data Says About Kalief

The Social Security Administration has registered 203 babies named Kalief between 1978 and 2021, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kalief currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 14 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kalief performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 84 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kalief shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Kalief in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kalief in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 203 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.