Kael

What Kael means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Kael yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #903 vs #2,014 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kael?

US: Rising: up from #1340 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2483 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 263 boys got the name (#903 that year). First in the US records in 1969.

How common

• About 1 in 6,495 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 22,661 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in KS (0.36 per 1,000 boys), AZ (0.31 per 1,000 boys), KY (0.29 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Kael is #903 in the US and #2014 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Kael were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Gael3,860 US · 18 E&W
• Cal554 US · 4 E&W
• Cael79 US · 4 E&W
• Kal60 US · 6 E&W
• Kol24 US
• Kohl17 US
• Kale11 US
• Koul8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Kael

Boys

• Aiden#62Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*
• Jayden#70Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #20 in 2015, #70 in 2025
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Emmanuel#179Editor’s note Down from #151 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Jeremiah#88“Yahweh exalt”^*
• Ashton#197“ash (tree species) + enclosure, settlement”^*

For a sister

• Ella#29Short form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*
• Nevaeh#165From the word “heaven”^*
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Lillian#57possibly “lily”^*
• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kael’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.