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
- 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
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 | #10,917 | 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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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.
See more about Kallen
- 175 spots since 2024 (#1,472 → #1,297)
- 35 spots since 2020 (#1,262 → #1,297)
- 58 spots since 2015 (#1,239 → #1,297)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 2014 at #1,174 (159 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 47.3% of all boys named Kallen (1,298) were born in this decade
- 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.
Kallen in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 253,146 of them was named Kallen, which outranked 31.8% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,781Zuleimy8
- #11,781Zyona8
- #11,781Zyva8
- #12,876Kallen7
- #12,876Aabha7
- #12,876Aadvi7
- #12,876Aagna7
- #14,331Aafiya6
- #14,331Aailyah6
- #14,331Aalina6
Tied with 1,454 names at #12,876; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 13,752 of them was named Kallen, which outranked 90.8% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).