Kaleo
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kaleo is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ka (“the”) + leo (“voice, tune”); also a short form of compound given names beginning thus.
- BRBrazil1 in 116K◐
- USUnited States1 in 263K
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands1 in 40K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.1K ●
- Sources
- 122 ●
- 1 in 116K ◐
across 4 countries
2.7K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
ka (“the”) + leo (“voice, tune”); also a short form of compound given names beginning thus.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 1,832△ | 168 rec. | 1 in 116K | 1.8K | Kaleo | 46 |
| US United States | — | 1,263 | 2.3K rec. | 1 in 263K | 1.3K | Kaleo | 122 |
| CA Canada | — | 74 | 37 rec. | — | 1 | Kaleo | 6 |
| DE Germany | — | 50 | 4 rec. | — | 3 | Kaleo | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | 40 | 0 rec. | — | 12 | Kaleo | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 16 | 21 rec. | — | listed | Kaleo | 7 |
| AU Australia | — | 13 | 19 rec. | — | — | Kaleo | 8 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #374 | 10 | 37 rec. | — | — | Kaleo | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 7 | 10 rec. | — | — | Kaleo | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | — | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 2 | — | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
Roughly 1.8K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 116K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese13K73%
- English3.7K21%
- Spanish2652%
- Swahili2271%
- German1071%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 12,896 | 73% |
| English | 3,714 | 21% |
| Spanish | 265 | 2% |
| Swahili | 227 | 1% |
| German | 107 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kaleo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hawaiian, a male or (formerly) female given name from Hawaiian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 11 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1984 | 9 |
| 1985 | 8 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 11 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1990 | 13 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 16 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 13 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 14 |
| 1999 | 25 |
| 2000 | 18 |
| 2001 | 41 |
| 2002 | 22 |
| 2003 | 30 |
| 2004 | 24 |
| 2005 | 37 |
| 2006 | 35 |
| 2007 | 44 |
| 2008 | 45 |
| 2009 | 47 |
| 2010 | 46 |
| 2011 | 52 |
| 2012 | 61 |
| 2013 | 66 |
| 2014 | 52 |
| 2015 | 59 |
| 2016 | 75 |
| 2017 | 88 |
| 2018 | 100 |
| 2019 | 108 |
| 2020 | 112 |
| 2021 | 120 |
| 2022 | 137 |
| 2023 | 140 |
| 2024 | 196 |
| 2025 | 265 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 51 years between 1971–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Osala Kaleob. 1997ZMZambian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 28 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.8K | #5,438 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,193 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 983 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 849 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 615 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 373 | #17,210 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 368 | #7,593 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 368 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 265 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 260 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 196 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 114 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kaleo?
- We estimate roughly 3.1 thousand people bear Kaleo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kaleo have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.8 thousand people bear Kaleo in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kaleo.
- How common is Kaleo compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Kaleo is the 374th most common given name of 789 given names recorded there.
- Is Kaleo a male or female name?
- Kaleo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Kaleo mean?
- Recorded meaning: ka (“the”) + leo (“voice, tune”); also a short form of compound given names beginning thus.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kaleo” — the 374th most common given name in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.