Meaning not yet researched.
Kaleb: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,143 in 2025. Its best rank was #108 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #108 in 2009; #295 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaleb in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#295 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #108.
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Kaleb: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,143 boys in 2025. Peak: #108 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 3,819 (2007).
In 2025, 1,143 US boys were named Kaleb, making it the 295th most common boys’ name of the year, down 16 places from #279 in 2024. That is 82 fewer than the 1,225 boys named Kaleb in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #108, reached in 2009. The most boys given the name in a single year was 3,819, in 2007. For comparison, it was #164 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaleb in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 86,851 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 34,860 babies named Kaleb.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 16,114 US boys were named Kaleb; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,261. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,494 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaleb ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #187 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Caleb (325,003 babies since 1880), Kalob (1,677 babies since 1880), Kalib (1,545 babies since 1880) and Kayleb (2,432 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaylob, Kalev and Kaylub are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kaylob (315), Kalev (250), Kaylub (179), Kaelob (175), Kaylib (131), Kaelib (58), Kaelub (26), Kalobe (24), Kailub (22), Kailob (14), Kaelyb (6), Kaylab (5), and more.
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 Kaleb 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 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 118 | #187 | #135 |
| Mississippi | 15 | #208 | #78 |
| Nevada | 15 | #209 | #143 |
| Arkansas | 17 | #214 | #182 |
| Alabama | 26 | #221 | #108 |
| Maryland | 26 | #224 | #167 |
| Pennsylvania | 54 | #227 | #148 |
| Georgia | 53 | #230 | #92 |
| South Carolina | 23 | #249 | #137 |
| North Carolina | 50 | #251 | #125 |
| Texas | 154 | #255 | #168 |
| Connecticut | 13 | #257 | #131 |
| New Jersey | 37 | #260 | #200 |
| Massachusetts | 21 | #279 | #179 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #281 | #232 |
| New Mexico | 7 | #288 | #197 |
| New York | 62 | #299 | #225 |
| Colorado | 22 | #300 | #214 |
| Arizona | 26 | #302 | #200 |
| Tennessee | 28 | #316 | #171 |
| California | 111 | #326 | #215 |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #348 | #158 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #349 | #157 |
| Indiana | 21 | #359 | #236 |
| Iowa | 9 | #383 | #174 |
| Louisiana | 13 | #384 | #106 |
| Ohio | 29 | #384 | #178 |
| Virginia | 20 | #398 | #141 |
| Utah | 11 | #425 | #240 |
| Michigan | 20 | #431 | #144 |
| Washington | 16 | #458 | #184 |
| Illinois | 23 | #463 | #167 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #472 | #239 |
| Missouri | 12 | #501 | #158 |
| Oregon | 7 | #503 | #196 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #547 | #131 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #592 | #145 |
| Kansas | 5 | #644 | #217 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #679 | #187 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,143 | #295 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,225 | #279 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,241 | #271 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,343 | #259 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,455 | #244 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,614 | #231 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,789 | #213 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,927 | #207 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,088 | 2,116 | #184 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,503 | 2,261 | #176 |
| 2015 | — | — | 2,535 | #164 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,552 | 2,770 | #146 |
| 2013 | — | — | 2,871 | #137 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,205 | 2,997 | #126 |
| 2011 | — | — | 3,344 | #116 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,923 | 3,429 | #118 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,060 | 3,787 | #108 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,167 | 3,710 | #115 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,211 | 3,819 | #113 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,999 | 3,704 | #115 |
| 2005 | — | — | 3,392 | #121 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,291 | 3,421 | #120 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,841 | 3,403 | #118 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,858 | 3,446 | #111 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,514 | 3,336 | #116 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,428 | 2,743 | #141 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,966 | 2,332 | #159 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,768 | 2,194 | #156 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,248 | 1,793 | #185 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,464 | 1,717 | #186 |
| 1995 | — | — | 1,435 | #206 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,327 | 1,329 | #219 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,121 | 1,224 | #237 |
| 1992 | — | — | 1,022 | #281 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,170 | 1,023 | #265 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,663 | 835 | #304 |
| 1989 | — | — | 668 | #345 |
| 1988 | — | — | 407 | #446 |
| 1987 | — | — | 334 | #483 |
| 1986 | — | — | 212 | #614 |
| 1985 | — | — | 199 | #622 |
| 1984 | — | — | 144 | #727 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,006 | 170 | #657 |
| 1982 | — | — | 157 | #694 |
| 1981 | — | — | 127 | #773 |
| 1980 | — | — | 119 | #806 |
| 1979 | — | — | 99 | #881 |
| 1978 | — | — | 69 | #1,053 |
| 1977 | — | — | 80 | #958 |
| 1976 | — | — | 48 | #1,272 |
| 1975 | — | — | 35 | #1,521 |
| 1974 | — | — | 22 | #2,023 |
| 1973 | — | — | 13 | #2,789 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,251 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,283 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,493 |
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).