Kalem
Kalem reached its high-water mark in 2017 at number 3,071, and has been recorded 965 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 940 Kalems are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Kalem
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 965
- Estimated living today
- 940
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 3,071st
- Rank in 2025
- 8,243rd
- First recorded
- 1974
How old the living Kalems are
born that year still alive today
Of the 965 babies given the name since 1974, about 940 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Kalem is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular boys’ names the year Kalem peaked:
Kalem elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Kalem | 361 | 513th |
| Ireland boys | Kalem | 66 | 299th |
| France boys | Kalem | 15 | 6,293rd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Kalem | 3 | 272nd |
| Scotland boys | Kalem | 3 | 648th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Kalem against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.