Meaning not yet researched.
Kalil: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,791 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,791 in 2000; #5,309 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kalil in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,309 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #1,791.
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Kalil: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,791 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 61 (2005).
In 2025, 18 US boys were named Kalil, making it the 5,309th most common boys’ name of the year, down 676 places from #4,633 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 22 boys named Kalil in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,791, reached in 2000. The most boys given the name in a single year was 61, in 2005. For comparison, it was #4,472 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kalil in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 6 babies. In all, 1,325 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 551 babies named Kalil.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 220 US boys were named Kalil; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,893 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kalel (4,415 babies since 1880) and Kahlil (4,288 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 Kalil 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 | — | — | 18 | #5,309 |
| 2024 | — | — | 22 | #4,633 |
| 2023 | — | — | 21 | #4,806 |
| 2022 | — | — | 17 | #5,537 |
| 2021 | — | — | 24 | #4,308 |
| 2020 | — | — | 25 | #4,082 |
| 2019 | — | — | 21 | #4,706 |
| 2018 | — | — | 18 | #5,205 |
| 2017 | — | — | 24 | #4,273 |
| 2016 | — | — | 30 | #3,644 |
| 2015 | — | — | 22 | #4,472 |
| 2014 | — | — | 27 | #3,845 |
| 2013 | — | — | 26 | #3,907 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,205 |
| 2011 | — | — | 29 | #3,651 |
| 2010 | — | — | 37 | #3,110 |
| 2009 | — | — | 51 | #2,503 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,564 |
| 2007 | — | — | 51 | #2,493 |
| 2006 | — | — | 54 | #2,335 |
| 2005 | — | — | 61 | #2,049 |
| 2004 | — | — | 53 | #2,203 |
| 2003 | — | — | 52 | #2,142 |
| 2002 | — | — | 61 | #1,856 |
| 2001 | — | — | 58 | #1,903 |
| 2000 | — | — | 61 | #1,791 |
| 1999 | — | — | 46 | #2,082 |
| 1998 | — | — | 42 | #2,179 |
| 1997 | — | — | 41 | #2,151 |
| 1996 | — | — | 49 | #1,859 |
| 1995 | — | — | 46 | #1,873 |
| 1994 | — | — | 32 | #2,426 |
| 1993 | — | — | 25 | #2,827 |
| 1992 | — | — | 19 | #3,404 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,916 |
| 1990 | — | — | 15 | #3,872 |
| 1989 | — | — | 11 | #4,666 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,897 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,563 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,302 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,070 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,870 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,487 |
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).