Meaning not yet researched.
Kalib: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,490 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,490 in 2002; #10,183 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kalib in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,183 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #1,490.
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Kalib: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,490 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 96 (2006).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Kalib, making it the 10,183rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 3,141 places from #7,042 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 12 boys named Kalib in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,490, reached in 2002. The most boys given the name in a single year was 96, in 2006. For comparison, it was #3,472 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kalib in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 1,545 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 721 babies named Kalib.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 139 US boys were named Kalib; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaleb (86,851 babies since 1880), Caleb (325,003 babies since 1880), Kayleb (2,432 babies since 1880) and Kalob (1,677 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 Kalib in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 7 | #10,183 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #7,042 |
| 2023 | — | — | 10 | #7,989 |
| 2022 | — | — | 15 | #6,005 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,137 |
| 2019 | — | — | 9 | #8,524 |
| 2018 | — | — | 15 | #5,908 |
| 2017 | — | — | 25 | #4,175 |
| 2016 | — | — | 32 | #3,478 |
| 2015 | — | — | 32 | #3,472 |
| 2014 | — | — | 29 | #3,657 |
| 2013 | — | — | 43 | #2,740 |
| 2012 | — | — | 37 | #3,082 |
| 2011 | — | — | 58 | #2,251 |
| 2010 | — | — | 41 | #2,893 |
| 2009 | — | — | 66 | #2,083 |
| 2008 | — | — | 77 | #1,886 |
| 2007 | — | — | 73 | #1,935 |
| 2006 | — | — | 96 | #1,545 |
| 2005 | — | — | 59 | #2,098 |
| 2004 | — | — | 71 | #1,772 |
| 2003 | — | — | 64 | #1,861 |
| 2002 | — | — | 85 | #1,490 |
| 2001 | — | — | 65 | #1,755 |
| 2000 | — | — | 65 | #1,733 |
| 1999 | — | — | 59 | #1,740 |
| 1998 | — | — | 65 | #1,610 |
| 1997 | — | — | 41 | #2,150 |
| 1996 | — | — | 40 | #2,126 |
| 1995 | — | — | 32 | #2,424 |
| 1994 | — | — | 35 | #2,279 |
| 1993 | — | — | 35 | #2,235 |
| 1992 | — | — | 25 | #2,775 |
| 1991 | — | — | 29 | #2,436 |
| 1990 | — | — | 25 | #2,661 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,911 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,846 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,662 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,453 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,195 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,017 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,287 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,894 |
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).