Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kalu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 38
- 38 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,951 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,951 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 277 as a first name in 2020; 1,005 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Kalu
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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