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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 84,140 of them was named Kaelan, which outranked 70.2% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,796Triniti22
- #4,796Trudy22
- #4,796Yalitza22
- #4,955Kaelan21
- #4,955Aaliya21
- #4,955Abigal21
- #4,955Acadia21
- #5,123Abegail20
- #5,123Abigaile20
- #5,123Abriel20
Tied with 167 names at #4,955; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 21,004 of them was named Kaelan, which outranked 88.5% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,297Kavon92
- #1,297Mohamad92
- #1,297Rudolph92
- #1,301Kaelan91
- #1,301Amar91
- #1,301Canaan91
- #1,301Dave91
- #1,322Blayne90
- #1,322Canyon90
- #1,322Colter90
Tied with 20 names at #1,301; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.