Kaelum
#5,990 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaelum has been given to 180 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #5,990 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Kaelum, 2025
1 in 221,000
Kaelum 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kaelum?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 114,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,990
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaelum 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaelum. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaelums were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaelum was born before 2019 — so the typical Kaelum is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 47.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 180
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 47.8% of all recorded uses (86).
Is Kaelum 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
- +3,417
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −639
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,372
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.67×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 68.2%
- Peak was 2018 (22)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 57.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kaelum
Kaelum is not the most common spelling — Callum is, with 52.0% against Kaelum's 0.58%.
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.
Kaelum around the world
Where Kaelum 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 & Wales1996–2014#3,895in 2014
- Northern Ireland2012–2012#403in 2012
- Ireland2006–2006#596in 2006
- Canada2012–2015#2,735in 2015
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kaelum by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kaelum
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kaelum
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.