Kaelan
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306 · #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
Given to boys 77.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 91 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,520since 1987
Kaelan 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 | — | #5,045 | 19 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,693 | 30 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,470 | 17 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | — | #5,562 | 16 | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #4,480 | 22 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #5,320 | 17 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #2,951 | 40 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #4,199 | 24 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #2,864 | 41 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 | #3,060 | 36 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #3,306 | 33 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #2,579 | 47 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 | #2,287 | 57 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | #2,632 | 47 |
| 2007 | #7,394 | 17 | #2,504 | 50 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #2,310 | 54 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | #2,081 | 59 |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 | #2,164 | 54 |
| 2003 | #3,347 | 43 | #2,077 | 54 |
| 2002 | #4,767 | 25 | #1,694 | 69 |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 | #1,710 | 67 |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 | #1,504 | 80 |
| 1999 | #4,576 | 24 | #1,436 | 81 |
| 1998 | #4,955 | 21 | #1,301 | 91 |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 | #1,366 | 81 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 | #1,586 | 62 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #1,549 | 61 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | #1,689 | 53 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #3,141 | 21 |
| 1992 | — | #2,909 | 23 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #4,760 | 11 |
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| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #4,573 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kaelan! It came in at #4,573, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1990, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kaelan
- 1,352 spots since 2024 (#3,693 → #5,045)
- 654 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #5,045)
- 2,181 spots since 2015 (#2,864 → #5,045)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 1998 at #1,301 (91 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,004 boys born in 1998 were named Kaelan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.9% of all boys named Kaelan (591) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 21 | #4,573 (1987) | #6,076 |
| 1990s | 484 | #1,301 (1998) | #2,193 |
| 2000s | 591 | #1,504 (2000) | #2,096 |
| 2010s | 315 | #2,579 (2010) | #3,645 |
| 2020s | 109 | #3,693 (2024) | #5,383 |
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.
Kaelan in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 289,772 of them was named Kaelan, which outranked 25.9% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,778Zora7
- #8,778Zuleyma7
- #8,778Zuly7
- #9,825Kaelan6
- #9,825Abbigayle6
- #9,825Abibail6
- #9,825Abiola6
- #11,325Aarica5
- #11,325Abbigale5
- #11,325Abel5
Tied with 1,499 names at #9,825; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 207,443 of them was named Kaelan, which outranked 43.9% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,239Zacharey10
- #4,239Zachrey10
- #4,239Zebedee10
- #4,573Kaelan9
- #4,573Abelino9
- #4,573Abhishek9
- #4,573Acie9
- #4,968Aarion8
- #4,968Abby8
- #4,968Abdelrahman8
Tied with 394 names at #4,573; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.