Kessler
#3,615 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kessler has been given to 687 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #3,615 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 34 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% boys, 17% girls all-time.
Babies named Kessler, 2025
1 in 107,000
Kessler 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kessler over time
In 2025, Kessler went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kessler?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 107,000
- 31 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 55,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,615
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 74,127 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kessler 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kessler. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kesslers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kessler was born before 2014 — so the typical Kessler is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 37.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 87.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 568
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (215).
Is Kessler 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
- +1,938
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +357
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +735
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.35×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 91.2%
- Peak was 2017 (34)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.4% average annual change
Spellings of Kessler
Kessler is not the most common spelling — Keller is, with 86.7% against Kessler's 13.3%.
- Keller86.7%3,702
- Kessler13.3%568
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 Kessler is used
Across 1910–2025, Kessler was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 491,239 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Kessler has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kessler around the world
Where Kessler 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.
- Canada2007–2024#3,231in 2024
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kessler by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kessler
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kessler
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.