first name
KALEB
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 68,291 people named Kaleb, 60.7% reported their origin as White, 17.2% as Black and 12.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Kaleb peaked in 2007, when 3,829 babies got the name.
At least 86,851 babies have been given the name since 1970. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Kaleb by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #216. The largest share of babies named Kaleb, 58.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Kaleb is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kaleb has been most common in Nevada (2.3×), Utah (1.9×), and Idaho (1.9×), and least common in New Jersey (0.33×).
85,422 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kaleb, most common first.
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