Meaning not yet researched.
Kalel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 180 in 2025. Its best rank was #860 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #860 in 2014; #1,161 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kalel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,161 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #860.
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Kalel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 180 boys in 2025. Peak: #860 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 257 (2014).
In 2025, 180 US boys were named Kalel, making it the 1,161st most common boys’ name of the year, down 37 places from #1,124 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 190 boys named Kalel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #860, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 257. For comparison, it was #896 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kalel in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 9 babies. In all, 4,415 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,157 babies named Kalel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,168 US boys were named Kalel; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 247. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,489 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kalel ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #552 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kahlil (4,288 babies since 1880) and Kalil (1,325 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaleel, Kahleel and Calil 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: Kaleel (555), Kahleel (277), Calil (221), Calel (200), Kaliel (127), Caleel (106), Kahlel (72), Kaleal (60), Caliel (33), Kallel (32), Kaleil (32), Kahleil (21), 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 Kalel 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 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 5 | #552 | — |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #660 | — |
| Florida | 20 | #765 | #555 |
| New York | 13 | #970 | #685 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #973 | #1,223 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,022 | — |
| Texas | 22 | #1,051 | #849 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,068 | #954 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,113 | #1,038 |
| California | 17 | #1,174 | #774 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,191 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,334 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,390 | #807 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 180 | #1,161 |
| 2024 | — | — | 190 | #1,124 |
| 2023 | — | — | 197 | #1,091 |
| 2022 | — | — | 222 | #1,004 |
| 2021 | — | — | 227 | #978 |
| 2020 | — | — | 216 | #987 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,098 | 233 | #936 |
| 2018 | — | — | 211 | #983 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,091 | 245 | #878 |
| 2016 | — | — | 247 | #887 |
| 2015 | — | — | 243 | #896 |
| 2014 | — | — | 257 | #860 |
| 2013 | — | — | 208 | #964 |
| 2012 | — | — | 153 | #1,184 |
| 2011 | — | — | 171 | #1,089 |
| 2010 | — | — | 174 | #1,103 |
| 2009 | — | — | 203 | #980 |
| 2008 | — | — | 181 | #1,052 |
| 2007 | — | — | 178 | #1,056 |
| 2006 | — | — | 161 | #1,095 |
| 2005 | — | — | 70 | #1,848 |
| 2004 | — | — | 53 | #2,202 |
| 2003 | — | — | 42 | #2,489 |
| 2002 | — | — | 34 | #2,791 |
| 2001 | — | — | 26 | #3,368 |
| 2000 | — | — | 23 | #3,587 |
| 1999 | — | — | 26 | #3,149 |
| 1998 | — | — | 11 | #5,650 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,364 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,252 |
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).