Koal
Koal was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,412 among boys’ names; 250 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Koal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Koal?
#11,412 among boys’ names, 2025
Koal fell from #6,895 in 2015 to #11,412 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 3.5 per million.
13 babies in 2003, the peak
Koal peaked in 2003, when 13 boys were given it, #5,734 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,412 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,458 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,658 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,208 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,282 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,364 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,542 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,381 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,334 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,895 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #9,254 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,258 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,848 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,225 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,914 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,587 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,003 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,394 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,702 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,022 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,496 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,734 | 6.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,572 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,139 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,368 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,242 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,112 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,518 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,393 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,618 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,202 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,193 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,804 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Koal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Koal has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Koal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Koal, and how old are they?
An estimated 246 Americans named Koal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 198 people named Koal (0 women and girls, 198 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 215 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,912 babies since 1880, Koal is the third most given (8.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 54 babies (11%), 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 Koal
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 Koal and names like it
- Compare Koal and KohlBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKoal peaked in 2003.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Koal.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Koal alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.