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How popular is “Kaleb” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kaleb” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kaleb” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kaleb” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kaleb” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kaleb” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kaleb” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kaleb” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 10 0.000003182 10 -100%
1973 13 0.000004309 13 -100%
1974 22 0.000007237 22 -100%
1975 35 0.000011592 35 -100%
1976 48 0.000015819 48 -100%
1977 80 0.000025185 80 -100%
1978 69 0.00002174 69 -100%
1979 99 0.000029757 99 -100%
1980 119 0.000034548 119 -100%
1981 127 0.000036712 127 -100%
1982 157 0.000044755 157 -100%
1983 175 0.000050529 5 170 -94%
1984 144 0.000041275 144 -100%
1985 199 0.000055756 199 -100%
1986 212 0.000059599 212 -100%
1987 334 0.000092633 334 -100%
1988 407 0.000110148 407 -100%
1989 668 0.000173757 668 -100%
1990 843 0.000213284 8 835 -98%
1991 1028 0.00026391 5 1023 -99%
1992 1022 0.000266058 1022 -100%
1993 1231 0.000326501 7 1224 -99%
1994 1341 0.000360711 12 1329 -98%
1995 1435 0.000391846 1435 -100%
1996 1727 0.000473515 10 1717 -99%
1997 1801 0.000496725 8 1793 -99%
1998 2206 0.000599749 12 2194 -99%
1999 2339 0.000633212 7 2332 -99%
2000 2750 0.000727532 7 2743 -99%
2001 3350 0.000894911 14 3336 -99%
2002 3453 0.000923684 7 3446 -100%
2003 3412 0.000897347 9 3403 -99%
2004 3445 0.000901615 24 3421 -99%
2005 3392 0.00088222 3392 -100%
2006 3714 0.000938782 10 3704 -99%
2007 3829 0.000957805 10 3819 -99%
2008 3718 0.000945896 8 3710 -100%
2009 3796 0.000993672 10 3786 -99%
2010 3434 0.000929178 6 3428 -100%
2011 3342 0.000913666 3342 -100%
2012 3004 0.000821356 7 2997 -100%
2013 2871 0.00078751 2871 -100%
2014 2774 0.00074844 6 2768 -100%
2015 2534 0.000684696 2534 -100%
2016 2265 0.000617385 5 2260 -100%
2017 2121 0.000593088 5 2116 -100%
2018 1925 0.000547513 1925 -100%
2019 1788 0.000515135 1788 -100%
2020 1612 0.000482551 1612 -100%
2021 1452 0.000428578 1452 -100%
2022 1342 0.000396674 1342 -100%
2023 1239 0.000374185 1239 -100%
2024 1221 0.000366832 1221 -100%

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