Meaning not yet researched.
Kal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,048 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,048 in 2021; #2,320 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,320 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #2,048.
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Kal: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,048 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 72 (2021).
In 2025, 60 US boys were named Kal, making it the 2,320th most common boys’ name of the year, up 10 places from #2,330 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 61 boys named Kal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,048, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 72. For comparison, it was #2,375 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kal in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 5 babies. In all, 1,256 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 420 babies named Kal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 586 US boys were named Kal; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,468 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kal ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #754 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), Cale (8,291 babies since 1880) and Kayle (4,654 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kal 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 5 | #754 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,093 | #2,143 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,424 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 60 | #2,320 |
| 2024 | — | — | 61 | #2,330 |
| 2023 | — | — | 64 | #2,234 |
| 2022 | — | — | 56 | #2,480 |
| 2021 | — | — | 72 | #2,048 |
| 2020 | — | — | 55 | #2,404 |
| 2019 | — | — | 55 | #2,446 |
| 2018 | — | — | 56 | #2,370 |
| 2017 | — | — | 55 | #2,365 |
| 2016 | — | — | 52 | #2,451 |
| 2015 | — | — | 55 | #2,375 |
| 2014 | — | — | 68 | #2,072 |
| 2013 | — | — | 18 | #5,071 |
| 2012 | — | — | 30 | #3,587 |
| 2011 | — | — | 13 | #6,414 |
| 2010 | — | — | 18 | #5,140 |
| 2009 | — | — | 13 | #6,627 |
| 2008 | — | — | 8 | #9,426 |
| 2007 | — | — | 15 | #5,795 |
| 2006 | — | — | 12 | #6,679 |
| 2005 | — | — | 14 | #5,731 |
| 2004 | — | — | 16 | #5,125 |
| 2003 | — | — | 14 | #5,411 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #8,054 |
| 2001 | — | — | 10 | #6,709 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #9,702 |
| 1999 | — | — | 12 | #5,495 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #8,019 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,357 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,771 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,582 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,142 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #5,060 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,284 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,388 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,308 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,786 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,269 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,513 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,767 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,776 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,314 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,336 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,692 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,335 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,116 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,445 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,715 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,800 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,089 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,448 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,871 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,880 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,190 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,359 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,955 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,353 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #3,000 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #2,969 |
| 1959 | — | — | 14 | #2,251 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #2,929 |
| 1957 | — | — | 11 | #2,560 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,084 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,871 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,002 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,213 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,514 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,008 |
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).