Kalil
Kalil was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,307 among boys’ names; 1,325 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,300 Americans named Kalil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalil?
#5,307 among boys’ names, 2025
Kalil fell from #4,470 in 2015 to #5,307 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.5 to 10.5 per million.
61 babies in 2000, the peak
Kalil peaked in 2000, when 61 boys were given it, #1,787 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,307 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,629 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,802 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,533 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,304 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,078 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,702 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,201 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,269 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,643 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,470 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,842 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,905 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,202 | 18.5 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,650 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 37 | #3,109 | 19.3 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,502 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 49 | #2,563 | 24.0 |
| 2007 | 51 | #2,493 | 24.6 |
| 2006 | 54 | #2,334 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,045 | 30.5 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,199 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,138 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 61 | #1,852 | 31.4 |
| 2001 | 58 | #1,899 | 29.9 |
| 2000 | 61 | #1,787 | 31.1 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,079 | 24.0 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,176 | 22.0 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,148 | 21.7 |
| 1996 | 49 | #1,855 | 25.9 |
| 1995 | 46 | #1,868 | 24.2 |
| 1994 | 32 | #2,421 | 16.6 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,821 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,398 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,909 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,866 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,660 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,890 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,556 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,298 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,064 | 2.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,868 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,485 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalil 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 Kalil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalil, and how old are they?
1,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,325 Americans ever recorded as Kalil. The median Kalil alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,133 people named Kalil (43 women and girls, 1,090 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,187 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 233 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 768 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 293 |
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).
How common is the spelling Kalil?
Kalil is a less common spelling of Khalil: SSA has recorded 1,325 Kalil and 25,203 Khalil since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,755 babies since 1880, Kalil is the fifth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 1,410 babies (1.3%), the sixth 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 Kalil
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 Kalil and names like it
- Compare Kalil and KhalilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKalil peaked in 2000.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalil since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Kalil.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalil alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.