Kalob
#11,321 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kalob has been given to 1,677 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #11,321 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 123 recorded.
Babies named Kalob, 2025
1 in 553,000
Kalob 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kalob?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,321
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kalob 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalob. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kalobs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalob was born before 2002 — so the typical Kalob is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 48.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 57.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,677
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 48.8% of all recorded uses (818).
Is Kalob 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
- −31
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,809
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.46×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 4.9%
- Peak was 2000 (123)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.3% average annual change
Spellings of Kalob
Kalob is not the most common spelling — Jacob is, with 64.6% against Kalob's 0.11%.
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 Kalob is used
Across 1910–2025, Kalob was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 209,750 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
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. Kalob has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kalob around the world
Where Kalob 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.
- Canada2002–2009#1,785in 2009
- South Australia1997–2005#643in 2005
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kalob by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kalob
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kalob
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.