girls:
16 births since 2006
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.7k births since 1969
#2049 (55th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1969
#4521 (42nd percentile)
The name Kael is the #4,521 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,683 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 41.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,049 (55.3% percentile) for all time with 3,667 births since 1969. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 2006.
Kael first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for boys and 2006 for girls). Birth data for Kael is available in 50 out of the 55 years between 1969 and 2023 (50 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 Kael has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kael reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 26.7% percentile (ranked #661) with 118 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 118 births per million (ranked 26.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kael ranks #814 for boys (10.7% percentile) with 56 births per million, which is 47.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kael reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #959) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kael".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kael is pronounced as kayl, which has 1 syllables.
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