Calel
Boy · KAL-el · Modern
Calel is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Calel mean?
Modern: spelling of Kalel; from Kal-El, Superman's birth name
From Kal-El, the Kryptonian birth name of Superman in DC Comics.
- Say it
- KAL-el
Meaning borrowed from Kalel. More on Wiktionary.
Is Calel a girl's or a boy's name?
Calel is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Calel in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,239among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Calel, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,292nd. Its busiest year was 2015, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 2004.
2025 had fewer boys named Calel than any year since 2017.
Half of all the boys named Calel in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 189 boys in the US were given Calel or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,027, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.
- Kalel 180
- Calel 9
Calel in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,464 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,870 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,582 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,292 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,638 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,132 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,136 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,141 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,503 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,021 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,859 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,030 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,726 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,921 |
Nicknames for Calel
- Kal 6 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Calel
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Callan Kyaire Axel Kayden Kayson Cassian Braylen Colson Cohen Gael Callum Kyson
Other spellings of Calel
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