Kalin
About 3,416 American babies have been named Kalin since 1959, most of them around 1994. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 3,300 Kalins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kalin boys named Kalin
Girls and boys called Kalin
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,519 girls and 1,897 boys in all, and in 2018 the split was 6 to 30.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 39 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,416
- Estimated living today
- 3,300
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 1994
- Best rank
- 1,178th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1959
- Girls / boys
- 1,519 / 1,897
How old the living Kalins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,416 babies given the name since 1959, about 3,300 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 780 of them are children and 9 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 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 Kalin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kalin is most concentrated in Utah (8.5×), California (3.9×), Georgia (2.3×), Michigan (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1994
The most popular boys’ names the year Kalin peaked:
Kalin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Kalin | 42 | 2,664th |
| Scotland boys | Kalin | 9 | 595th |
| Switzerland boys | Kalin | 5 | 1,916th |
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.
Kalin: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Kalin | 4 | 0.000% | 1,243rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Kalin | 1 | 0.000% | 1,073rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Kalin by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 578th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Kalin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.