Kalid
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kalid has been given to 204 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1996, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Kalid, 2023
1 in 474,000
Kalid 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kalid?
Kalid had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,234 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kalid sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kalids were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalid was born before 2004 — so the typical Kalid is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 31.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 69.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 204
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (64).
Is Kalid 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1996 (11)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kalid
Kalid is not the most common spelling — David is, with 90.4% against Kalid'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.
Kalid around the world
Where Kalid 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 & Wales1998–2011#4,647in 2011
- France1968–2002#4,160in 2002
- Canada2004–2020#2,570in 2020
- South Australia1993–1993#519in 1993
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kalid by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kalid
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kalid
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.