Kalin
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #13,462 · #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
Given to boys 55.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 94 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,897since 1959
Kalin over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #6,143 | 14 | |
| 2024 | — | #7,765 | 10 | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | — | #4,850 | 20 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,494 | 22 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,698 | 20 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,230 | 24 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #3,607 | 30 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #3,358 | 33 |
| 2015 | #6,452 | 19 | #3,982 | 26 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #3,456 | 31 |
| 2013 | #5,317 | 25 | #3,339 | 32 |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #2,626 | 46 |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 | #2,682 | 45 |
| 2009 | #3,870 | 40 | #1,959 | 72 |
| 2008 | #4,006 | 39 | #3,057 | 38 |
| 2007 | #3,983 | 39 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #3,669 | 42 | #3,384 | 31 |
| 2005 | #3,126 | 50 | #3,241 | 31 |
| 2004 | #3,689 | 39 | #2,569 | 42 |
| 2003 | #3,043 | 49 | #2,470 | 42 |
| 2002 | #2,976 | 49 | #2,817 | 33 |
| 2001 | #2,881 | 50 | #2,306 | 43 |
| 2000 | #2,817 | 51 | #2,196 | 45 |
| 1999 | #2,368 | 62 | #2,098 | 45 |
| 1998 | #1,830 | 84 | #1,680 | 61 |
| 1997 | #2,070 | 68 | #1,535 | 67 |
| 1996 | #2,177 | 62 | #1,265 | 87 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 | #1,275 | 84 |
| 1994 | #2,047 | 68 | #1,178 | 94 |
| 1993 | #2,241 | 58 | #1,444 | 65 |
| 1992 | #2,488 | 51 | #1,429 | 64 |
| 1991 | #2,449 | 51 | #1,589 | 53 |
| 1990 | #2,523 | 47 | #1,635 | 50 |
| 1989 | #2,478 | 46 | #1,550 | 52 |
| 1988 | #3,165 | 31 | #1,618 | 44 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 | #2,057 | 29 |
| 1986 | #2,724 | 35 | #1,493 | 45 |
| 1985 | #3,621 | 23 | #2,071 | 27 |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 | #2,437 | 20 |
| 1983 | #2,975 | 28 | #1,955 | 27 |
| 1982 | #3,898 | 20 | #2,596 | 18 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #2,086 | 25 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | #2,965 | 15 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #3,386 | 11 |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
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| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
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| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,290 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kalin! It came in at #3,290, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1965, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kalin is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Kalin in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kalin
- 1,622 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #6,143)
- 1,445 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #6,143)
- 2,161 spots since 2015 (#3,982 → #6,143)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1994 at #1,178 (94 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,554 boys born in 1994 were named Kalin (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.3% of all boys named Kalin (670) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2008, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 7 | #3,290 (1959) | #3,290 |
| 1960s | 37 | #3,062 (1969) | #3,681 |
| 1970s | 52 | #2,777 (1979) | #4,252 |
| 1980s | 302 | #1,493 (1986) | #2,083 |
| 1990s | 670 | #1,178 (1994) | #1,513 |
| 2000s | 405 | #1,959 (2009) | #2,769 |
| 2010s | 325 | #2,626 (2011) | #3,464 |
| 2020s | 99 | #4,494 (2021) | #5,745 |
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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