Kalen
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #2,077 for boys in 2025, 71 births
Given to boys 75.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 169 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,629since 1959
Kalen 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 | #10,107 | 9 | #2,077 | 71 |
| 2024 | — | #2,042 | 74 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,416 | 56 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #1,892 | 83 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #1,645 | 101 |
| 2020 | — | #2,139 | 65 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,868 | 80 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #2,101 | 67 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #2,110 | 66 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | #2,112 | 66 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | #1,873 | 78 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 | #1,733 | 84 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 | #1,742 | 86 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 | #1,510 | 106 |
| 2010 | #6,641 | 19 | #1,358 | 125 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #1,257 | 140 |
| 2008 | #4,268 | 36 | #1,380 | 123 |
| 2007 | #4,475 | 33 | #1,197 | 147 |
| 2006 | #3,992 | 37 | #1,367 | 118 |
| 2005 | #3,404 | 44 | #1,282 | 120 |
| 2004 | #4,601 | 29 | #1,235 | 122 |
| 2003 | #3,590 | 39 | #1,076 | 144 |
| 2002 | #2,888 | 51 | #1,204 | 115 |
| 2001 | #2,963 | 48 | #1,080 | 133 |
| 2000 | #2,740 | 53 | #1,152 | 120 |
| 1999 | #2,567 | 55 | #1,100 | 121 |
| 1998 | #2,429 | 57 | #858 | 169 |
| 1997 | #2,481 | 52 | #1,140 | 109 |
| 1996 | #2,630 | 47 | #1,093 | 110 |
| 1995 | #2,788 | 43 | #935 | 141 |
| 1994 | #2,124 | 64 | #1,009 | 121 |
| 1993 | #2,195 | 60 | #933 | 133 |
| 1992 | #2,733 | 44 | #936 | 130 |
| 1991 | #2,620 | 46 | #1,282 | 76 |
| 1990 | #3,227 | 34 | #1,037 | 104 |
| 1989 | #2,769 | 40 | #1,030 | 100 |
| 1988 | #2,447 | 44 | #994 | 95 |
| 1987 | #2,852 | 34 | #914 | 106 |
| 1986 | #3,054 | 30 | #971 | 89 |
| 1985 | #3,517 | 24 | #998 | 83 |
| 1984 | #3,726 | 21 | #1,166 | 61 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 | #1,314 | 50 |
| 1982 | #4,025 | 19 | #1,293 | 52 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | #1,577 | 38 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #1,808 | 31 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #2,669 | 17 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #2,134 | 22 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #3,386 | 11 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #2,826 | 14 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 | — | |
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| 1971 | #2,955 | 23 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | #2,907 | 9 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 | #2,780 | 9 |
| 1964 | — | #2,409 | 12 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
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| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 | #3,037 | 8 |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kalen! It came in at #3,037, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kalen
- 35 spots since 2024 (#2,042 → #2,077)
- 62 spots since 2020 (#2,139 → #2,077)
- 35 spots since 2015 (#2,112 → #2,077)
- Biggest jump: 346 spots in 1992 (#1,282 → #936)
- Biggest drop: 242 spots in 1999 (#858 → #1,100)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1998 at #858 (169 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1985–1988
- Highest: 1 in 11,310 boys born in 1998 were named Kalen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,057 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.7% of all boys named Kalen (1,282) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1975, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 8 | #3,037 (1959) | #3,037 |
| 1960s | 61 | #2,409 (1964) | #3,254 |
| 1970s | 99 | #2,134 (1978) | #3,173 |
| 1980s | 705 | #914 (1987) | #1,207 |
| 1990s | 1,214 | #858 (1998) | #1,032 |
| 2000s | 1,282 | #1,076 (2003) | #1,223 |
| 2010s | 810 | #1,358 (2010) | #1,886 |
| 2020s | 450 | #1,645 (2021) | #2,035 |
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.
Kalen in 1984
Top girls' names in 1984
Top boys' names in 1984
More about 1984
girls
1,683,817 girls got a published name in 1984; 1 in 80,182 of them was named Kalen, which outranked 69.4% of the 12,181 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,613Yashica22
- #3,613Yomayra22
- #3,613Zaida22
- #3,726Kalen21
- #3,726Aaliyah21
- #3,726Ainsley21
- #3,726Allen21
- #3,874Aarti20
- #3,874Annaliese20
- #3,874Arely20
Tied with 147 names at #3,726; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,804,848 boys got a published name in 1984; 1 in 29,588 of them was named Kalen, which outranked 84.1% of the 7,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,154Paulo62
- #1,154Woodrow62
- #1,154Zack62
- #1,166Kalen61
- #1,166Jarett61
- #1,166Jermain61
- #1,166Jonmichael61
- #1,174Baron60
- #1,174Bjorn60
- #1,174Bobbie60
Tied with 7 names at #1,166; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.