Kalin
Kalin was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,270 among boys’ names; 3,416 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,320 Americans named Kalin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 19 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalin?
#6,270 among boys’ names, 2025
Kalin fell from #4,027 in 2015 to #6,270 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.6 to 8.2 per million.
162 babies in 1994, the peak
Kalin peaked in 1994, when 162 babies were given it (94 boys, #1,181 among boys’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 14 | #6,270 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 10 | #8,031 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,250 | 13 | #6,706 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 20 | #4,928 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 22 | #4,551 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 20 | #4,780 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 24 | #4,276 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,675 | 30 | #3,657 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,613 | 26 | #4,035 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,131 | 33 | #3,397 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,578 | 26 | #4,027 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,846 | 31 | #3,501 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,392 | 32 | #3,371 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,459 | 32 | #3,420 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,635 | 46 | #2,651 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,349 | 45 | #2,707 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,915 | 72 | #1,965 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,044 | 38 | #3,077 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,014 | 28 | #3,744 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,693 | 31 | #3,418 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,141 | 31 | #3,278 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,706 | 42 | #2,583 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,063 | 42 | #2,486 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,991 | 33 | #2,844 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,889 | 43 | #2,322 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,832 | 45 | #2,206 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,383 | 45 | #2,120 |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,835 | 61 | #1,687 |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,080 | 67 | #1,543 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,190 | 87 | #1,267 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,698 | 84 | #1,278 |
| 1994 | 68 | #2,046 | 94 | #1,181 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,243 | 65 | #1,447 |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,491 | 64 | #1,439 |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,459 | 53 | #1,594 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,534 | 50 | #1,641 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,493 | 52 | #1,551 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,180 | 44 | #1,628 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,808 | 29 | #2,085 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,751 | 45 | #1,500 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,663 | 27 | #2,098 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,061 | 20 | #2,487 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,015 | 27 | #1,985 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,940 | 18 | #2,643 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,132 | 25 | #2,117 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,683 | 15 | #3,024 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,433 | 16 | #2,840 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,010 | 9 | #4,003 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,301 | 11 | #3,483 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 5 | #6,030 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,893 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,353 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,976 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,714 | |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,280 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,637 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 9 | #3,195 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 7 | #3,378 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 5 | #4,331 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,340 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 6 | #3,840 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 5 | #4,329 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 7 | #3,430 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kalin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,416 Americans recorded as Kalin, 44% are girls and 56% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Kalin every year since 2009. In 2025 it went to 14 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kalin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalin, and how old are they?
3,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,416 Americans ever recorded as Kalin. The median Kalin alive today is 28 years old; half are between 19 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 3,161 people named Kalin (1,489 women and girls, 1,672 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,250 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 21 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 129 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,360 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 395 |
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 Kalin born?
The states with the most babies named Kalin are California, Texas and Utah, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 257 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 89 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Utah | 46 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 45 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 43 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 42 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Kalin 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 22,570 babies since 1880, Kalin is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 378 babies (3.7%), the eighth 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 Kalin
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 Kalin and names like it
- Compare Kalin and KalenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKalin peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalin since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Kalin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.