Girls' name · since 2015
Kalypso
Kalypso has 87 recorded births since 2015 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #28,695 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,791 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 87
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Kalypso is the #8791 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 87 recorded since 2015.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kalypso has been recorded 87 times among girls since 2015, currently ranked #8791 nationally and more common than 49% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2015 to 2025.
- #28,695 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #8,791 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 87 born since 2015
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kalypso ranks #28,695 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,791 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 87 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.
- #28,695 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,791 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 87
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Kalypso's 87 recorded births place it above 60.23% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Kalypso compares
87 23rd percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Kalypso's all-time total is 77% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Kalypso | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 87 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 13 | 21 | 19,840 |
Kalypso's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kalypso splits its recorded history at 2021: 61% of all births land in the more recent half, 39% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2015 (6 births) -- compare that against the 2023 peak of 13 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kalypso popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Kalypso by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (59 births, 68% of the file).
2020s was Kalypso's strongest decade.
59 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 68% of all-time use.
Kalypso births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
28 births
- 2020s
2020s
59 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 59 births (68% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Kalypso: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2015–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kalypso draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.