Kaleb
Last seen for girls in 2017 at #15,902 · #295 for boys in 2025, 1,143 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 3,787 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 86,649since 1970
Kaleb over time
Rank among boys' names. Kaleb has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #295 | 1,143 | |
| 2024 | — | #279 | 1,225 | |
| 2023 | — | #271 | 1,241 | |
| 2022 | — | #259 | 1,343 | |
| 2021 | — | #243 | 1,455 | |
| 2020 | — | #231 | 1,614 | |
| 2019 | — | #213 | 1,789 | |
| 2018 | — | #207 | 1,927 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #184 | 2,116 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #176 | 2,261 |
| 2015 | — | #164 | 2,535 | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #146 | 2,770 |
| 2013 | — | #137 | 2,871 | |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #126 | 2,997 |
| 2011 | — | #116 | 3,344 | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #118 | 3,429 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #108 | 3,787 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #115 | 3,710 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #113 | 3,819 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #115 | 3,704 |
| 2005 | — | #121 | 3,392 | |
| 2004 | #5,208 | 24 | #120 | 3,421 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #118 | 3,403 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #111 | 3,446 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #116 | 3,336 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #141 | 2,743 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #159 | 2,332 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #156 | 2,194 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #185 | 1,793 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #186 | 1,717 |
| 1995 | — | #206 | 1,435 | |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #219 | 1,329 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #237 | 1,224 |
| 1992 | — | #280 | 1,022 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #265 | 1,023 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #304 | 835 |
| 1989 | — | #345 | 668 | |
| 1988 | — | #446 | 407 | |
| 1987 | — | #483 | 334 | |
| 1986 | — | #613 | 212 | |
| 1985 | — | #621 | 199 | |
| 1984 | — | #725 | 144 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #655 | 170 |
| 1982 | — | #692 | 157 | |
| 1981 | — | #772 | 127 | |
| 1980 | — | #804 | 119 | |
| 1979 | — | #875 | 99 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,051 | 69 | |
| 1977 | — | #954 | 80 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,267 | 48 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,505 | 35 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,983 | 22 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,716 | 13 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kaleb! It came in at #4,230, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1971, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Kaleb is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Nebraska#157 · 1 in 1,088
- Maine#172 · 1 in 1,456
- Iowa#177 · 1 in 1,474
- Missouri#181 · 1 in 1,404
- Oklahoma#194 · 1 in 1,296
Best ever in a state: #29 in Mississippi, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | #157 | 10 | 1 in 1,088 |
| Maine | #172 | 5 | 1 in 1,456 |
| Iowa | #177 | 12 | 1 in 1,474 |
| Missouri | #181 | 26 | 1 in 1,404 |
| Oklahoma | #194 | 16 | 1 in 1,296 |
| Kansas | #195 | 12 | 1 in 1,389 |
| Arkansas | #229 | 9 | 1 in 1,633 |
| Oregon | #249 | 9 | 1 in 2,039 |
| Kentucky | #287 | 7 | 1 in 3,373 |
| Alabama | #297 | 11 | 1 in 2,348 |
| Washington | #304 | 12 | 1 in 2,717 |
| Minnesota | #315 | 7 | 1 in 4,379 |
| Utah | #317 | 6 | 1 in 2,710 |
| Colorado | #324 | 8 | 1 in 3,018 |
| Illinois | #324 | 30 | 1 in 2,782 |
| Ohio | #362 | 17 | 1 in 4,524 |
| Wisconsin | #366 | 7 | 1 in 4,628 |
| Indiana | #367 | 9 | 1 in 4,310 |
| Louisiana | #380 | 11 | 1 in 2,871 |
| Texas | #380 | 45 | 1 in 3,202 |
| Tennessee | #388 | 8 | 1 in 4,231 |
| Arizona | #396 | 8 | 1 in 3,681 |
| Georgia | #461 | 10 | 1 in 4,670 |
| Florida | #479 | 17 | 1 in 4,969 |
| North Carolina | #479 | 8 | 1 in 5,439 |
| Virginia | #512 | 6 | 1 in 6,688 |
| Michigan | #534 | 8 | 1 in 8,083 |
| Pennsylvania | #568 | 8 | 1 in 9,890 |
| California | #727 | 23 | 1 in 10,967 |
| New York | #1,035 | 7 | 1 in 18,527 |
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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 Kaleb
- 16 spots since 2024 (#279 → #295)
- 64 spots since 2020 (#231 → #295)
- 131 spots since 2015 (#164 → #295)
- Biggest jump: 313 spots in 1977 (#1,267 → #954)
- Biggest drop: 97 spots in 1978 (#954 → #1,051)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2009 at #108 (3,787 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 48 yrs · run 1979–2025
- Highest: 1 in 524 boys born in 2009 were named Kaleb (0.19%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,494 boys born in 2025 (0.07%)
- 40.1% of all boys named Kaleb (34,761) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 387 | #875 (1979) | #2,264 |
| 1980s | 2,537 | #345 (1989) | #616 |
| 1990s | 14,904 | #156 (1998) | #220 |
| 2000s | 34,761 | #108 (2009) | #118 |
| 2010s | 26,039 | #116 (2011) | #159 |
| 2020s | 8,021 | #231 (2020) | #263 |
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.
Kaleb in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 4,703 of them was named Kaleb, which outranked 94.7% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.