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Kaladin vs Kallie

American parents have registered 12,683 Kallies since 1880, against 816 Kaladins. Kallie is still ahead, with 279 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaladin against Kallie, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaladin Kallie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kallie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1923 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Kaladin had 119 and Kallie had 279.

Side by side

  Kaladin Kallie
Total US births 81612,683
Most in one year 133444
Babies in 2025 119279
Estimated living today 81013,000
Median age today 317
Peak year 20242014
Best rank 1,405th boys642nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,486th933rd
First recorded 20121923
Girls / boys 0 / 81612,683 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kallies alive today are over 17; half the Kaladins are over 3. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kaladin Kallie
England and Wales 7531

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kaladin and Kallie.