Khaleb
Khaleb was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,090 among boys’ names; 1,040 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Khaleb and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khaleb by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khaleb?
#4,090 among boys’ names, 2025
Khaleb fell from #2,585 in 2015 to #4,090 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 25.0 to 15.2 per million.
55 babies in 2010, the peak
Khaleb peaked in 2010, when 55 boys were given it, #2,340 among boys’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,090 | 15.2 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,246 | 21.5 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,923 | 25.1 |
| 2022 | 43 | #2,935 | 24.6 |
| 2021 | 33 | #3,454 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,100 | 21.4 |
| 2019 | 46 | #2,746 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 47 | #2,651 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 51 | #2,514 | 27.6 |
| 2016 | 47 | #2,645 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #2,585 | 25.0 |
| 2014 | 50 | #2,496 | 26.0 |
| 2013 | 47 | #2,577 | 24.8 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,573 | 25.3 |
| 2011 | 50 | #2,491 | 26.3 |
| 2010 | 55 | #2,340 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,245 | 17.6 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,658 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,746 | 21.2 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,125 | 17.0 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,736 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,381 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,909 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,228 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,587 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,691 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,246 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,533 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,722 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,832 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,704 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khaleb a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khaleb has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khaleb: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khaleb, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,040 Americans ever recorded as Khaleb. The median Khaleb alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 660 people named Khaleb (4 women and girls, 656 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 823 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 15 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 462 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 551 |
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).
How common is the spelling Khaleb?
Khaleb is a less common spelling of Caleb: SSA has recorded 1,040 Khaleb and 325,003 Caleb since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 420,011 babies since 1880, Khaleb is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 6,436 babies (<1%), the fourth 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 Khaleb
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 Khaleb and names like it
- Compare Khaleb and CalebBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKhaleb peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khaleb since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Khaleb.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Khaleb alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.