Kalman
Kalman was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,087 among boys’ names; 1,258 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalman?
#4,087 among boys’ names, 2025
Kalman rose from #4,966 in 2015 to #4,087 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.9 to 15.2 per million.
26 babies in 2017, the peak
Kalman peaked in 2017, when 26 boys were given it, #4,036 among boys’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,087 | 15.2 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,771 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,664 | 12.9 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,311 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,552 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,568 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,955 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,915 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,036 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,039 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #4,966 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,369 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,814 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,370 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,094 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,887 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,946 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,924 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,094 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,663 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,038 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,889 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,407 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,333 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,704 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,911 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,881 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,306 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,932 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,030 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,326 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,411 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,140 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,101 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,742 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,574 | 3.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,780 | 3.7 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,449 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,765 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,194 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,040 | 8.3 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,626 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,354 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,486 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,559 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,700 | 5.7 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,481 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,665 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,493 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,170 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,257 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,881 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,717 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,359 | 6.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,187 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,236 | 6.8 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,841 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,075 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,802 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,216 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,433 | 5.6 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,730 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,496 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,630 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,266 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,782 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,305 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,671 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,155 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,274 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,311 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,340 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,190 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,255 | 8.1 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,797 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 17 | #1,773 | 12.3 |
| 1941 | 16 | #1,793 | 13.0 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,132 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,717 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,562 | 8.1 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,142 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,819 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,625 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,292 | 11.1 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,231 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,773 | 8.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,282 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,685 | 9.3 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,233 | 7.2 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,917 | 16.0 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,029 | 14.4 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,369 | 11.6 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,093 | 14.1 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,313 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,411 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,021 | 15.4 |
| 1920 | 19 | #1,848 | 17.9 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,601 | 22.4 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,219 | 13.8 |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,462 | 25.9 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,897 | 18.0 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,434 | 27.1 |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,174 | 38.2 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,543 | 25.4 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,146 | 16.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 105 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalman, and how old are they?
An estimated 780 Americans named Kalman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (62% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 11 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 861 people named Kalman (0 women and girls, 861 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 721 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Kalman born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 15 | #897 | 3.6× |
Where Kalman is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kalman is most over-represented in New York: since 1912 it was given 3.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Kalman 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,394 babies since 1880, Kalman is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 34 babies (76%), again the most given.
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 Kalman
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 Kalman and names like it
- Compare Kalman and KalmenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKalman peaked in 2017.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalman since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Kalman.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kalman alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.