Kalmen

#9,296 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kalmen has been given to 136 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #9,296 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Kalmen, 2025

1 in 414,000

Kalmen over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Kalmen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,296
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalmen 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalmen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kalmens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalmen was born before 2019 — so the typical Kalmen is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
48.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
136
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Choose a decade

2020s — 48.5% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Kalmen 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
−640
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,504
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
57.1%
Peak was 2018 (14)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,167
2018

Spellings of Kalmen

Kalmen is not the most common spelling — Allen is, with 33.1% against Kalmen's 0.02%.

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 Kalmen is used

Across 1910–2025, Kalmen was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 190,341 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000

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. Kalmen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kalmen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,296
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,504
Best rank ever
#6,167
2018
Peak year
2018
14 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
136
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Kalmen

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Sibling names for Kalmen

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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