Kal
- #2,304 for boys in 2025, 60 births
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 72 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,256since 1947
Kal over time
Rank among boys' names. Kal has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,304 | 60 |
| 2024 | #2,313 | 61 |
| 2023 | #2,221 | 64 |
| 2022 | #2,468 | 56 |
| 2021 | #2,040 | 72 |
| 2020 | #2,392 | 55 |
| 2019 | #2,421 | 55 |
| 2018 | #2,355 | 56 |
| 2017 | #2,345 | 55 |
| 2016 | #2,437 | 52 |
| 2015 | #2,355 | 55 |
| 2014 | #2,063 | 68 |
| 2013 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #3,530 | 30 |
| 2011 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #5,661 | 15 |
| 2006 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #5,578 | 14 |
| 2004 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #4,246 | 15 |
| 1996 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #3,314 | 8 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,760 | 9 |
| 1966 | #2,784 | 9 |
| 1965 | #3,930 | 5 |
| 1964 | #2,310 | 13 |
| 1963 | #2,858 | 9 |
| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #2,871 | 9 |
| 1959 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1958 | #2,818 | 9 |
| 1957 | #2,494 | 11 |
| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
| 1955 | #2,764 | 9 |
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| 1952 | #3,734 | 5 |
| 1951 | #3,066 | 7 |
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| 1949 | #3,298 | 6 |
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| 1947 | #3,733 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kal! It came in at #3,733, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1948, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kal is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#703 · 1 in 3,933
- California#1,998 · 1 in 25,068
- Texas#2,285 · 1 in 29,175
Best ever in a state: #247 in South Dakota, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #703 | 5 | 1 in 3,933 |
| California | #1,998 | 7 | 1 in 25,068 |
| Texas | #2,285 | 6 | 1 in 29,175 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kal
- 9 spots since 2024 (#2,313 → #2,304)
- 88 spots since 2020 (#2,392 → #2,304)
- 51 spots since 2015 (#2,355 → #2,304)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 2021 at #2,040 (72 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,298 boys born in 2021 were named Kal (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,468 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.4% of all boys named Kal (420) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 11 | #3,298 (1949) | #3,516 |
| 1950s | 63 | #2,200 (1959) | #2,864 |
| 1960s | 76 | #2,310 (1964) | #3,084 |
| 1970s | 53 | #3,318 (1974) | #4,214 |
| 1980s | 70 | #4,153 (1981) | #5,087 |
| 1990s | 79 | #4,167 (1990) | #6,025 |
| 2000s | 116 | #5,007 (2004) | #6,663 |
| 2010s | 420 | #2,063 (2014) | #3,379 |
| 2020s | 368 | #2,040 (2021) | #2,290 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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