How Many People Are Named Kaleb?
people named Kaleb are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 3,999 people in the US has this name
Based on 86,851 babies named Kaleb in Social Security records from 1970 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
3,829 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
English variant of CALEB.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Kaleb in English. Counting Kaleb and these spellings together, about 402,558 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Kaleb (99.8%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Kaleb alive today is about 18 years old, and 89% are under 30. Half of them were between 12 and 24 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Kaleb first appears in the records in 1970 and was given most often in 2007, to 3,829 babies. In 2025, 1,143 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1970 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Kaleb has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #108, in 2009. In 2025 it ranked #295.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #295 |
| Best rank | #108 (2009) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #117 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Kaleb alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Kaleb were born in Texas than in any other state: about 8,879 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kaleb was given 2.2 times as often in Wyoming, 2 times in Louisiana and 2 times in Mississippi.
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