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 | ||
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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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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.
Where Kallen is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oklahoma#569 · 1 in 2,509
- Minnesota#812 · 1 in 4,821
- Michigan#961 · 1 in 6,663
- Washington#994 · 1 in 6,503
- Ohio#1,136 · 1 in 8,782
Best ever in a state: #228 in North Dakota, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oklahoma | #569 | 7 | 1 in 2,509 |
| Minnesota | #812 | 5 | 1 in 4,821 |
| Michigan | #961 | 6 | 1 in 6,663 |
| Washington | #994 | 5 | 1 in 6,503 |
| Ohio | #1,136 | 6 | 1 in 8,782 |
| Texas | #1,276 | 16 | 1 in 11,175 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 147,290 of them was named Kallen, which outranked 49.5% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,443Zuzanna12
- #8,443Zyairah12
- #8,443Zylee12
- #8,946Kallen11
- #8,946Aairah11
- #8,946Aalaya11
- #8,946Aariah11
- #9,556Aaila10
- #9,556Aalyiah10
- #9,556Aariana10
Tied with 609 names at #8,946; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 14,007 of them was named Kallen, which outranked 89.7% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,459Teagan124
- #1,459Valor124
- #1,459Yunus124
- #1,472Kallen123
- #1,472Akeem123
- #1,472Dominique123
- #1,472Gonzalo123
- #1,481Anton122
- #1,481Cecil122
- #1,481Cristobal122
Tied with 8 names at #1,472; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.