Kayleb
Kayleb was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,614 among boys’ names; 2,432 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,400 Americans named Kayleb and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kayleb by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kayleb?
#3,614 among boys’ names, 2025
Kayleb fell from #1,431 in 2015 to #3,614 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 62.6 to 18.1 per million.
171 babies in 2010, the peak
Kayleb peaked in 2010, when 171 boys were given it, #1,114 among boys’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,614 | 18.1 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,141 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,086 | 23.4 |
| 2022 | 50 | #2,656 | 28.6 |
| 2021 | 43 | #2,890 | 24.6 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,307 | 34.2 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,010 | 40.7 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,247 | 33.6 |
| 2017 | 85 | #1,796 | 45.9 |
| 2016 | 78 | #1,895 | 41.1 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 120 | #1,431 | 62.6 |
| 2014 | 117 | #1,430 | 60.9 |
| 2013 | 138 | #1,267 | 73.0 |
| 2012 | 131 | #1,311 | 69.1 |
| 2011 | 140 | #1,242 | 73.7 |
| 2010 | 171 | #1,114 | 89.1 |
| 2009 | 156 | #1,163 | 78.6 |
| 2008 | 127 | #1,352 | 62.3 |
| 2007 | 117 | #1,402 | 56.4 |
| 2006 | 89 | #1,624 | 43.3 |
| 2005 | 68 | #1,873 | 34.0 |
| 2004 | 78 | #1,661 | 39.3 |
| 2003 | 72 | #1,705 | 36.4 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,076 | 26.8 |
| 2001 | 60 | #1,849 | 30.9 |
| 2000 | 37 | #2,550 | 18.8 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,763 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,973 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 37 | #2,285 | 19.6 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,607 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,765 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,523 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,861 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,399 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,935 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,804 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,583 | 3.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,786 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kayleb a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kayleb has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kayleb: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kayleb, and how old are they?
2,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,432 Americans ever recorded as Kayleb. The median Kayleb alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,763 people named Kayleb (26 women and girls, 1,737 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,176 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 113 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,370 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 914 |
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 Kayleb born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #1,664 | 0.5× |
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 Kayleb 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 420,372 babies since 1880, Kayleb is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 6,445 babies (<1%), again the third 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 Kayleb
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 Kayleb and names like it
- Compare Kayleb and CalebBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKayleb peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kayleb since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Kayleb.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kayleb alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.