Kessler — #5530 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kessler

The Social Security Administration has registered 537 babies named Kessler between 1990 and 2024, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kessler currently holds the #5530 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 34 babies received it in a single year. Kessler is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 119 additional births since 1974.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kessler performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 215 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kessler shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kessler in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kessler 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 537 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.