Meaning not yet researched.
Kael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 263 in 2025. Its best rank was #851 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #851 in 2009; #903 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kael in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#903 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #851.
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Kael: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 263 boys in 2025. Peak: #851 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 263 (2025).
In 2025, 263 US boys were named Kael, making it the 903rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 573 places from #1,476 in 2024. That is 140 more than the 123 boys named Kael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #851, reached in 2009. The most boys given the name in a single year was 263, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,344 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kael in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 8 babies. In all, 4,071 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,596 babies named Kael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,132 US boys were named Kael; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 263. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,495 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kael ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #626 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cal (7,868 babies since 1880), Kale (7,605 babies since 1880), Kayle (4,654 babies since 1880) and Cael (3,745 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kahil and Kaiyel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kahil (119), Kaiyel (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kael in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 11 | #626 | — |
| Florida | 27 | #630 | #1,825 |
| Kansas | 5 | #642 | — |
| Texas | 47 | #645 | #1,595 |
| New York | 23 | #649 | — |
| Arizona | 10 | #657 | #839 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #665 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #752 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #773 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #807 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #884 | #1,155 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #964 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #972 | — |
| California | 22 | #1,001 | #1,583 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,070 | #1,024 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,170 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,371 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 263 | #903 |
| 2024 | — | — | 123 | #1,476 |
| 2023 | — | — | 103 | #1,665 |
| 2022 | — | — | 63 | #2,283 |
| 2021 | — | — | 70 | #2,087 |
| 2020 | — | — | 72 | #1,986 |
| 2019 | — | — | 104 | #1,598 |
| 2018 | — | — | 123 | #1,427 |
| 2017 | — | — | 93 | #1,700 |
| 2016 | — | — | 118 | #1,459 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,382 | 131 | #1,344 |
| 2014 | — | — | 159 | #1,177 |
| 2013 | — | — | 156 | #1,157 |
| 2012 | — | — | 200 | #997 |
| 2011 | — | — | 199 | #984 |
| 2010 | — | — | 203 | #971 |
| 2009 | — | — | 251 | #851 |
| 2008 | — | — | 248 | #859 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,958 | 178 | #1,055 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,509 | 236 | #852 |
| 2005 | — | — | 163 | #1,034 |
| 2004 | — | — | 145 | #1,091 |
| 2003 | — | — | 142 | #1,092 |
| 2002 | — | — | 117 | #1,198 |
| 2001 | — | — | 71 | #1,651 |
| 2000 | — | — | 35 | #2,652 |
| 1999 | — | — | 21 | #3,645 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,300 |
| 1997 | — | — | 18 | #3,812 |
| 1996 | — | — | 15 | #4,285 |
| 1995 | — | — | 16 | #3,959 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #4,011 |
| 1993 | — | — | 14 | #4,354 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,437 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,543 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,593 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,722 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,602 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,094 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,544 |
| 1985 | — | — | 17 | #2,892 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,765 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,319 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,856 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,866 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,895 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,421 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,480 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,559 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,475 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,359 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,446 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).