Kalum
- #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 30 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 450since 1974
Kalum over time
Rank among boys' names. Kalum has never cracked the top 3,000 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 | #4,396 | 23 |
| 2024 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #4,850 | 20 |
| 2021 | #4,247 | 24 |
| 2020 | #3,734 | 28 |
| 2019 | #4,480 | 22 |
| 2018 | #4,610 | 21 |
| 2017 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #5,789 | 15 |
| 2015 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #3,532 | 30 |
| 2013 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #9,948 | 6 |
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| 2001 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #8,479 | 6 |
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| 1996 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #7,770 | 6 |
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| 1991 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #7,178 | 6 |
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| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
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| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
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| 1981 | #3,858 | 10 |
| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
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| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kalum! It came in at #5,227, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1979, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kalum is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
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- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,285 · 1 in 29,175
Best ever in a state: #2,285 in Texas, 2025.
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| Texas | #2,285 | 6 | 1 in 29,175 |
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See more about Kalum
- 1,263 spots since 2024 (#5,659 → #4,396)
- 662 spots since 2020 (#3,734 → #4,396)
- 893 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #4,396)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2014 at #3,532 (30 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 61,646 boys born in 2020 were named Kalum (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 74,264 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,532 in 2014, was only 1 in 64,029 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.1% of all boys named Kalum (167) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #5,227 (1974) | #5,346 |
| 1980s | 26 | #3,858 (1981) | #5,742 |
| 1990s | 51 | #5,928 (1995) | #6,986 |
| 2000s | 73 | #5,390 (2001) | #7,970 |
| 2010s | 167 | #3,532 (2014) | #5,795 |
| 2020s | 123 | #3,734 (2020) | #4,964 |
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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