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 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 297,516 of them was named Caelan, which outranked 24.3% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,006Zyliah7
- #13,006Zymira7
- #13,006Zyniyah7
- #14,482Caelan6
- #14,482Aafia6
- #14,482Aailyah6
- #14,482Aala6
- #16,419Aabriella5
- #16,419Aada5
- #16,419Aailiyah5
Tied with 1,936 names at #14,482; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 36,165 of them was named Caelan, which outranked 82.8% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,386Varun54
- #2,386Zaki54
- #2,386Zyan54
- #2,412Caelan53
- #2,412Armoni53
- #2,412Corben53
- #2,412Cove53
- #2,429Aleksandr52
- #2,429Basil52
- #2,429Bayne52
Tied with 16 names at #2,412; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.