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Kaleo

#898 in 2025Boys' name

The + voice, tune

Kaleo has been given to 2,257 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #898 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 265 recorded.

Babies named Kaleo, 2025

1 in 12,500

Kaleo over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaleo: meaning, origin, and history

The + voice, tune

Hawaiian

What Kaleo means

Kaleo means “the + voice, tune”, associated with ka and leo.

Origin, language, and formation

Kaleo is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Kaleo is pronounced /kaˈle.o/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,252 boys were recorded with the name Kaleo between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 265 in 2025; its best national rank was #898 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,507 in 2020 to #898 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,263 in 2015 to #898 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Kaleo between 2025 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2025; its best national rank was #16,039 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kaleo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,500
265 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,450
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#898
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaleo 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaleo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaleos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaleo was born before 2018 — so the typical Kaleo is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
43.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,252
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 43.1% of all recorded uses (970).

Is Kaleo 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
+203
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+609
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,365
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.49×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (265)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#898
2025

Spellings of Kaleo

Kaleo is not the most common spelling — Kyle is, with 20.7% against Kaleo's 0.10%.

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.

Where Kaleo is used

Across 2016–2025, Kaleo was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 538 boys, against 1 in 13,190 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

1186 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 538
  2. 2Nevada1 in 4,762
  3. 3California1 in 5,556
  4. 4Washington1 in 5,556
  5. 5Oregon1 in 6,250
  6. 6Arizona1 in 6,667
  7. 7Colorado1 in 11,111
  8. 8Florida1 in 14,286

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.

Kaleo around the world

Where Kaleo 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
    2022–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    2012–2023
    #6,335
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kaleo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#898
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 609
Best rank ever
#898
2025
Peak year
2025
265 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,252
Count in 2025
265

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,039
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#16,039
2025
Peak year
2025
5 that year
First recorded
2025
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Kaleo

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

KalinKalobKalibKalanKalilKalelKalenKalaniKalonKalemKallenKalmanKalumKaliKallanKalvinKaledKallumKaleKalixKalKaleiKaleelKalev

Names with a curve like Kaleo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kaleo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AlessioKnowledgeZenZakariYazanCartierElyasAshZayanGadielJeriahBeaux

Sibling names for Kaleo

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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