Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Kaler

#19,383 most common boys' name of all time · #50,837 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1983–2016

Rank among boys
#19,383
Rank overall
#50,837 of 105,966
First appeared
1983
Years on the list
9 of 146
All-time
53
Since 2016
5
Peak year
1998 #7,219
Best rank
#6,209 1983
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
2000

Kaler first appears in 1983. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2016 — 5 5 #12,801
2008 — 8 8 #9,376
2007 — 5 5 #13,005
2005 — 5 5 #12,127
1998 — 8 8 #7,219
1997 — 6 6 #8,717
1994 — 5 5 #9,517
1988 — 5 5 #8,119
1983 — 6 6 #6,209