Caliber
#8,362 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Caliber has been given to 273 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #8,362 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.
Babies named Caliber, 2025
1 in 368,000
Caliber over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Caliber over time
In 2025, Caliber went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Caliber?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,362
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Caliber sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caliber. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Calibers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Caliber was born before 2018 — so the typical Caliber is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 53.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 256
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 53.1% of all recorded uses (136).
Is Caliber rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −2,124
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,482
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +505
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.13×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 34.6%
- Peak was 2016 (26)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.4% average annual change
Spellings of Caliber
Caliber is not the most common spelling — Calder is, with 44.8% against Caliber's 5.3%.
Where Caliber is used
Across 1910–2025, Caliber was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 395,872 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Oklahoma1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Caliber has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Caliber by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Caliber
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Caliber
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.