Kalob
Kalob was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,321 among boys’ names; 1,677 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,640 Americans named Kalob and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalob by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalob?
#11,321 among boys’ names, 2025
Kalob fell from #6,512 in 2015 to #11,321 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 3.5 per million.
123 babies in 2000, the peak
Kalob peaked in 2000, when 123 boys were given it, #1,131 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,321 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,230 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,079 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,290 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,122 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,191 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,224 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,222 | 9.5 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,512 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,619 | 10.9 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 36 | #3,093 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,739 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,684 | 23.7 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,850 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,175 | 31.3 |
| 2008 | 63 | #2,151 | 30.9 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,100 | 31.3 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,136 | 29.7 |
| 2005 | 80 | #1,678 | 40.1 |
| 2004 | 83 | #1,583 | 41.8 |
| 2003 | 87 | #1,489 | 44.0 |
| 2002 | 93 | #1,407 | 47.9 |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,298 | 52.0 |
| 2000 | 123 | #1,131 | 62.6 |
| 1999 | 65 | #1,644 | 33.9 |
| 1998 | 57 | #1,776 | 29.8 |
| 1997 | 67 | #1,544 | 35.5 |
| 1996 | 58 | #1,658 | 30.6 |
| 1995 | 57 | #1,608 | 29.9 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,908 | 22.8 |
| 1993 | 52 | #1,681 | 26.5 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,194 | 17.5 |
| 1991 | 38 | #1,994 | 18.8 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,459 | 13.6 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,380 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,724 | 11.0 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,203 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,318 | 3.3 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,970 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,195 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,408 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,869 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,335 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalob a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalob 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 Kalob: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalob, and how old are they?
1,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,677 Americans ever recorded as Kalob. The median Kalob alive today is 24 years old; half are between 19 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,340 people named Kalob (0 women and girls, 1,340 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,629 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 386 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 130 |
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 Kalob born?
The states with the most babies named Kalob are Texas, California and Ohio, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 158 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 69 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 43 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 25 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 18 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 12 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Utah | 12 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kentucky | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 7 | 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 Kalob 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 420,069 babies since 1880, Kalob is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 6,441 babies (<1%), 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 Kalob
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 Kalob and names like it
- Compare Kalob and CalebBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKalob peaked in 2000.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalob since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Kalob.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalob alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.