Recorded 1970–2025 · United States
Kaleb was most popular in 2007, when 3,829 American babies were given the name — ranking #200 that year. In 2025 it ranked #582, with 1,143 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 86,851 people named Kaleb.
Kaleb first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1970, which makes it about 55 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 56 of the 56 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 86,851 American births named Kaleb between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 85,447 are estimated to be alive today.
1,143 American babies were named Kaleb in 2025, ranking #582 that year.
Kaleb is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 1,281 births a year, against 2,906 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -56% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Kaleb is a boy’s name — 0.2% of the 86,851 Americans given it were girls and 99.8% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 85,447 Americans named Kaleb are alive today — 98% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 19 years old, and half are between 13 and 25. That is a narrow band: Kaleb arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
A variant of Caleb · Hebrew · read as "devotion", or "dog"
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org