Kaelin
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 74.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1995 · 160 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,737since 1981
Kaelin 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #5,045 | 26 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #4,083 | 36 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #4,069 | 36 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #3,925 | 38 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | #3,166 | 51 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #3,314 | 49 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #2,989 | 57 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #2,386 | 79 | #6,359 | 13 |
| 2009 | #1,822 | 118 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #1,800 | 121 | #4,267 | 23 |
| 2007 | #1,510 | 153 | #3,511 | 30 |
| 2006 | #1,436 | 157 | #3,451 | 30 |
| 2005 | #1,173 | 196 | #3,528 | 27 |
| 2004 | #1,533 | 130 | #3,014 | 33 |
| 2003 | #1,395 | 142 | #3,280 | 28 |
| 2002 | #2,199 | 75 | #2,882 | 32 |
| 2001 | #1,660 | 109 | #3,228 | 27 |
| 2000 | #1,885 | 90 | #3,150 | 27 |
| 1999 | #1,940 | 81 | #2,462 | 36 |
| 1998 | #1,958 | 77 | #2,199 | 41 |
| 1997 | #1,400 | 120 | #2,024 | 44 |
| 1996 | #1,399 | 118 | #1,533 | 65 |
| 1995 | #1,107 | 160 | #1,010 | 121 |
| 1994 | #1,675 | 89 | #1,495 | 63 |
| 1993 | #3,052 | 38 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #2,687 | 45 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #3,301 | 33 | #2,828 | 23 |
| 1990 | #3,297 | 33 | #3,779 | 15 |
| 1989 | #2,810 | 39 | #3,618 | 15 |
| 1988 | #3,039 | 33 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #3,424 | 26 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #4,186 | 19 | — | |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 | #4,973 | 7 |
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| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaelin! It came in at #5,254, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2024–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaelin is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kentucky#708 · 1 in 4,046
- Maryland#898 · 1 in 5,055
- Indiana#914 · 1 in 5,418
- Illinois#1,365 · 1 in 9,461
- Georgia#1,381 · 1 in 8,803
Best ever in a state: #219 in Kentucky, 1995.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #708 | 5 | 1 in 4,046 |
| Maryland | #898 | 5 | 1 in 5,055 |
| Indiana | #914 | 6 | 1 in 5,418 |
| Illinois | #1,365 | 7 | 1 in 9,461 |
| Georgia | #1,381 | 6 | 1 in 8,803 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,397 | 5 | 1 in 11,068 |
| Ohio | #1,415 | 5 | 1 in 11,278 |
| New York | #1,615 | 8 | 1 in 11,941 |
| California | #1,938 | 13 | 1 in 17,642 |
| Florida | #2,056 | 5 | 1 in 17,216 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kaelin
- 7,730 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #14,942)
- 10,873 spots since 2015 (#4,069 → #14,942)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 1995 at #1,107 (160 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,428 girls born in 2005 were named Kaelin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,107 in 1995, was only 1 in 10,991 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 47.2% of all girls named Kaelin (1,291) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 184 | #2,810 (1989) | #4,369 |
| 1990s | 794 | #1,107 (1995) | #2,182 |
| 2000s | 1,291 | #1,173 (2005) | #1,641 |
| 2010s | 408 | #2,386 (2010) | #4,218 |
| 2020s | 60 | #7,212 (2020) | #9,173 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kaelin in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 15,628 of them was named Kaelin, which outranked 91.2% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,789Malena122
- #1,789Moira122
- #1,789Sloan122
- #1,800Kaelin121
- #1,800Aidan121
- #1,800Brooklin121
- #1,800Jadelyn121
- #1,808Annemarie120
- #1,808Egypt120
- #1,808Gwenyth120
Tied with 7 names at #1,800; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 88,702 of them was named Kaelin, which outranked 70.8% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,145Zaelyn24
- #4,145Zaidyn24
- #4,145Zarian24
- #4,267Kaelin23
- #4,267Advait23
- #4,267Advay23
- #4,267Afton23
- #4,395Aadan22
- #4,395Aadin22
- #4,395Abdurahman22
Tied with 127 names at #4,267; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.