Kalif
Kalif was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 407 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalif by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalif?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,240, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1994, the peak
Kalif peaked in 1994, when 29 boys were given it, #2,585 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #13,240 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,244 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,488 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,392 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,283 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,551 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,264 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,027 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,421 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,336 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | #8,700 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,526 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,406 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,332 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,925 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,910 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,810 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,775 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,207 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,473 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,158 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 29 | #2,585 | 15.0 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,736 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,449 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,343 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,280 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,996 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,997 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,091 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,297 | 5.4 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,706 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,314 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,739 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,751 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,938 | 5.8 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,003 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,671 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,012 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalif a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalif has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalif: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalif, and how old are they?
An estimated 392 Americans named Kalif and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 23 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 361 people named Kalif (9 women and girls, 352 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 385 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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).
How common is the spelling Kalif?
Kalif is a less common spelling of Khalif: SSA has recorded 407 Kalif and 1,740 Khalif since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,409 babies since 1880, Kalif is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 none of their 24 babies recorded by SSA was a Kalif (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 Kalif
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 Kalif and names like it
- Compare Kalif and KhalifBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKalif peaked in 1994.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalif since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Kalif.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kalif alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.