Kaleo is a Hawaiian name made of ka, "the", and leo, "voice", so it means "the voice" or "the sound", and it is given with the wish that a child be heard. It is also the name of the Icelandic rock band Kaleo, which took the Hawaiian word as its name. Kaleo rose steadily from number 2264 in 2015 to number 1101 in 2024 and entered the US top 1000 for the first time in 2025 at number 898.