Kallen
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #1,297 for boys in 2025, 150 births
Given to boys 88.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 159 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,743since 1963
Kallen over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #10,917 | 8 | #1,297 | 150 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #1,472 | 123 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #1,360 | 138 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #1,330 | 141 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #1,273 | 149 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #1,262 | 145 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #1,413 | 124 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,513 | 113 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #1,365 | 130 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #1,310 | 138 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #1,239 | 147 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #1,174 | 159 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #1,468 | 112 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #1,376 | 122 |
| 2011 | #9,723 | 11 | #1,264 | 136 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #1,415 | 117 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #1,839 | 80 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #2,583 | 48 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #2,304 | 56 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #2,578 | 46 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #3,389 | 29 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #3,626 | 24 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #2,817 | 33 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #3,842 | 21 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #2,939 | 28 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 | #3,351 | 21 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #4,022 | 16 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | — | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #3,309 | 18 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
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First appearance
1963
The first year at least five boys were named Kallen! It came in at #3,646, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1981, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 175 spots since 2024 (#1,472 → #1,297)
- 35 spots since 2020 (#1,262 → #1,297)
- 58 spots since 2015 (#1,239 → #1,297)
Rise & fade · boys
51 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 2014 at #1,174 (159 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,387
- Highest: 1 in 11,387 boys born in 2025 were named Kallen (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,174 in 2014, was only 1 in 12,081 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 47.3% of all boys named Kallen (1,298) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1994
- Mostly girls until 1993, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #3,646 (1963) | #3,646 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 55 | #4,130 (1986) | #5,069 |
| 1990s | 139 | #2,939 (1999) | #4,442 |
| 2000s | 399 | #1,839 (2009) | #2,897 |
| 2010s | 1,298 | #1,174 (2014) | #1,354 |
| 2020s | 846 | #1,262 (2020) | #1,332 |
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.
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