Caelan
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
Given to boys 78.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 135 births
- Debut · boys
- 35 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,470since 1992
Caelan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #2,884 | 43 |
| 2024 | — | #3,335 | 35 | |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #2,290 | 61 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #2,117 | 70 |
| 2021 | — | #2,410 | 56 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #2,658 | 47 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #2,110 | 68 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #2,355 | 56 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #2,186 | 61 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #2,437 | 52 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #2,412 | 53 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | #2,175 | 62 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | #2,021 | 67 |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 | #2,172 | 61 |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 | #1,675 | 89 |
| 2010 | #6,641 | 19 | #1,652 | 94 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 | #1,688 | 93 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #1,399 | 121 |
| 2007 | #4,380 | 34 | #2,051 | 67 |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 | #1,877 | 72 |
| 2005 | #4,487 | 30 | #2,237 | 53 |
| 2004 | #2,742 | 59 | #1,440 | 97 |
| 2003 | #2,260 | 75 | #1,646 | 76 |
| 2002 | #2,888 | 51 | #1,177 | 119 |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 | #1,068 | 135 |
| 2000 | #4,981 | 23 | #1,282 | 101 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 | #1,212 | 105 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | #1,189 | 104 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #1,134 | 110 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | #1,465 | 69 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #1,430 | 69 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #1,927 | 43 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #2,697 | 26 |
| 1992 | — | #2,174 | 35 | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Caelan! It came in at #2,174, and was given to 35 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1992–1993, when fewer than 36 boys a year got the name.
See more about Caelan
- 451 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #2,884)
- 226 spots since 2020 (#2,658 → #2,884)
- 472 spots since 2015 (#2,412 → #2,884)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2001 at #1,068 (135 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,392 boys born in 2001 were named Caelan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.8% of all boys named Caelan (934) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1991, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 561 | #1,134 (1997) | #1,654 |
| 2000s | 934 | #1,068 (2001) | #1,587 |
| 2010s | 663 | #1,652 (2010) | #2,120 |
| 2020s | 312 | #2,117 (2022) | #2,616 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Caelan in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 76,481 of them was named Caelan, which outranked 70.8% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,543Zeta24
- #5,543Zowie24
- #5,543Zuleyma24
- #5,728Caelan23
- #5,728Aasiyah23
- #5,728Abigal23
- #5,728Addi23
- #5,935Aaliyha22
- #5,935Aamira22
- #5,935Abigaile22
Tied with 206 names at #5,728; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 21,340 of them was named Caelan, which outranked 88.3% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,666Jimmie90
- #1,666Marshawn90
- #1,666Xavian90
- #1,675Caelan89
- #1,675Abdulrahman89
- #1,675Ammon89
- #1,675Chauncey89
- #1,687Braxten88
- #1,687Cal88
- #1,687Demarco88
Tied with 11 names at #1,675; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.