Kaleel
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ka-LEEL
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #6,442 for boys
Kaleel is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “close friend”. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
What does Kaleel mean?
Arabic: spelling of Khalil
“close friend”
The same name as Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese-American author of The Prophet.
Is Kaleel a girl's or a boy's name?
Kaleel is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kaleel in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,442among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 130,000 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, 13 boys in the US were named Kaleel, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,616th. Its busiest year was 1997, with 30 boys. It first appears in the records in 1992.
2025 had more boys named Kaleel than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Kaleel in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kaleel in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,616 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,802 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,334 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 14 | #5,993 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,113 |
| 2012 | 14 | #5,995 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,495 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,845 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,746 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,392 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,638 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,449 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,273 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,788 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,265 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,904 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,837 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,530 |
| 1999 | 18 | #3,981 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,187 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,609 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,585 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,551 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,320 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,440 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,120 |
Names like Kaleel
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden Keegan Khalil Brayden Aiden Kian Declan Brody Kylan Ronan Hamza Raiden
Names related to Kaleel
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kaleel: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaleel, updated 20 October 2026.