Kalin — #7836 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kalin

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,883 babies named Kalin between 1959 and 2024, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kalin currently holds the #7836 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 94 babies received it in a single year. Kalin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,519 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kalin performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 670 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kalin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 152 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Kalin in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kalin 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 1,883 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.