girls:
17 births since 2016
#5699 (0th percentile)
boys:
233 births since 2004
#4353 (5th percentile)
overall:
250 births since 2004
#7489 (3rd percentile)
The name Caliber is the #7,489 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 250 recorded births since 2004. This represents the 3.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,353 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 233 births since 2004. For girls, it ranks #5,699 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 2016.
Caliber first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2004 (2004 for boys and 2016 for girls). Birth data for Caliber is available in 18 out of the 20 years between 2004 and 2023 (18 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Caliber has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Caliber reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #900) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Caliber ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 63.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Caliber reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #935) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Caliber".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Caliber. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.0% confident that Caliber is pronounced as KA-luh-ber, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KA-lih-ber, at 17.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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