Kahlan
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to girls 94.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 155 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,484since 1997
Kahlan 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 | #9,457 | 10 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #4,648 | 28 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #4,260 | 33 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #3,918 | 37 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #2,835 | 59 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,966 | 56 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,431 | 75 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,304 | 80 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,032 | 95 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,685 | 125 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,540 | 142 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,456 | 155 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #1,979 | 105 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,773 | 65 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,247 | 52 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,265 | 34 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,404 | 44 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,444 | 43 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,131 | 47 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,730 | 35 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | — | |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 | — | |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | #9,265 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kahlan! It came in at #7,283, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2025, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kahlan
- 3,063 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #9,457)
- 4,809 spots since 2020 (#4,648 → #9,457)
- 7,026 spots since 2015 (#2,431 → #9,457)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2010 at #1,456 (155 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,468 girls born in 2010 were named Kahlan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 57.7% of all girls named Kahlan (857) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1996, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 45 | #5,424 (1999) | #6,475 |
| 2000s | 477 | #1,979 (2009) | #3,506 |
| 2010s | 857 | #1,456 (2010) | #2,543 |
| 2020s | 105 | #4,648 (2020) | #6,985 |
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.
Kahlan in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 145,059 of them was named Kahlan, which outranked 54.9% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,844Zoei13
- #6,844Zoraida13
- #6,844Zykia13
- #7,283Kahlan12
- #7,283Aariana12
- #7,283Aarti12
- #7,283Abagale12
- #7,742Aalliyah11
- #7,742Aashna11
- #7,742Abagayle11
Tied with 458 names at #7,283; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 377,028 of them was named Kahlan, which outranked 14.3% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,549 names at #9,265; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.