Meaning not yet researched.
Kayleb: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,114 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,114 in 2010; #3,615 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kayleb in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,615 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,114.
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Kayleb: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,114 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 171 (2010).
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Kayleb, making it the 3,615th most common boys’ name of the year, up 529 places from #4,144 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 26 boys named Kayleb in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,114, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 171. For comparison, it was #1,431 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kayleb in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 7 babies. In all, 2,432 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,114 babies named Kayleb.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 546 US boys were named Kayleb; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 85. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Caleb (325,003 babies since 1880), Kaleb (86,851 babies since 1880), Kalob (1,677 babies since 1880) and Kalib (1,545 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 Kayleb 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 | — | — | 31 | #3,615 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,144 |
| 2023 | — | — | 40 | #3,088 |
| 2022 | — | — | 50 | #2,657 |
| 2021 | — | — | 43 | #2,891 |
| 2020 | — | — | 59 | #2,308 |
| 2019 | — | — | 73 | #2,011 |
| 2018 | — | — | 61 | #2,248 |
| 2017 | — | — | 85 | #1,796 |
| 2016 | — | — | 78 | #1,895 |
| 2015 | — | — | 120 | #1,431 |
| 2014 | — | — | 117 | #1,430 |
| 2013 | — | — | 138 | #1,267 |
| 2012 | — | — | 131 | #1,311 |
| 2011 | — | — | 140 | #1,242 |
| 2010 | — | — | 171 | #1,114 |
| 2009 | — | — | 156 | #1,163 |
| 2008 | — | — | 127 | #1,352 |
| 2007 | — | — | 117 | #1,402 |
| 2006 | — | — | 89 | #1,624 |
| 2005 | — | — | 68 | #1,877 |
| 2004 | — | — | 78 | #1,664 |
| 2003 | — | — | 72 | #1,708 |
| 2002 | — | — | 52 | #2,080 |
| 2001 | — | — | 60 | #1,853 |
| 2000 | — | — | 37 | #2,555 |
| 1999 | — | — | 31 | #2,767 |
| 1998 | — | — | 27 | #2,976 |
| 1997 | — | — | 37 | #2,288 |
| 1996 | — | — | 19 | #3,613 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,771 |
| 1994 | — | — | 19 | #3,529 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,867 |
| 1992 | — | — | 19 | #3,405 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,942 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,811 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,590 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,793 |
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).