Kalob is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Kalob in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Kalob in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Kalob by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Kalob ranks at #5,104. That means there are 5,103 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kalob.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Kalob. Boys named Kalob have made themselves scarce. But some parents have recently gotten a taste for it: At No. 1,053 Kalob ranked higher than ever in 2000. By comparison, there have been 102 years in which the first name Kalob has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their sons Kalob only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kalob was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The odds of having a man or boy named Kalob in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Kalob is registered in 16 states, among which are Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Kalob live in Texas, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 77,125 men and boys in Texas for their name before you meet one who answers with Kalob.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Kalob is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.
If your name is Kalob and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kalob, you can simply say:
Koala
Apple
Lion
Orange
Butterfly
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kalob
Kalob
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
A
L
O
B
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
K
A
L
O
B
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kalob sounds like this:
