Kaelo

#7,935 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kaelo has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 2020. In 2025 it ranked #7,935 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Kaelo, 2025

1 in 332,000

Kaelo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Kaelo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,935
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaelo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaelo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaelos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaelo was born before 2023 — so the typical Kaelo is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
35
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Kaelo 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
+5,286
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,120
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (10)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,935
2025

Spellings of Kaelo

Kaelo is not the most common spelling — Karl is, with 30.0% against Kaelo's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Kaelo around the world

Where Kaelo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2023–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Kaelo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,935
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,120
Best rank ever
#7,935
2025
Peak year
2025
10 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
35
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Kaelo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Kaelo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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