Kelan
#4,857 for boys in 2025, 20 births
- Peak · boys
- 2007 · 201 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,810since 1956
Kelan over time
Rank among boys' names. Kelan has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,857 | 20 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #4,220 | 25 |
| 2022 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 2021 | #4,780 | 20 |
| 2020 | #3,570 | 30 |
| 2019 | #3,716 | 29 |
| 2018 | #2,994 | 39 |
| 2017 | #3,378 | 33 |
| 2016 | #3,441 | 32 |
| 2015 | #2,684 | 45 |
| 2014 | #2,582 | 47 |
| 2013 | #2,528 | 48 |
| 2012 | #2,172 | 61 |
| 2011 | #2,232 | 58 |
| 2010 | #2,037 | 67 |
| 2009 | #1,942 | 73 |
| 2008 | #1,665 | 92 |
| 2007 | #977 | 201 |
| 2006 | #1,387 | 115 |
| 2005 | #3,091 | 33 |
| 2004 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 2002 | #3,095 | 29 |
| 2001 | #2,249 | 45 |
| 2000 | #2,222 | 44 |
| 1999 | #2,398 | 37 |
| 1998 | #2,782 | 29 |
| 1997 | #2,396 | 34 |
| 1996 | #2,535 | 30 |
| 1995 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1994 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1993 | #2,697 | 26 |
| 1992 | #2,599 | 27 |
| 1991 | #2,828 | 23 |
| 1990 | #2,628 | 25 |
| 1989 | #2,784 | 22 |
| 1988 | #2,961 | 18 |
| 1987 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #2,684 | 19 |
| 1985 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #2,706 | 17 |
| 1983 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #2,596 | 18 |
| 1981 | #3,412 | 12 |
| 1980 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | #3,357 | 12 |
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| 1977 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
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| 1967 | #2,760 | 9 |
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| 1965 | #3,244 | 7 |
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| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
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| 1961 | #3,097 | 8 |
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| 1959 | #3,619 | 6 |
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| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kelan! It came in at #2,969, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1958, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kelan
- 586 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #4,857)
- 1,287 spots since 2020 (#3,570 → #4,857)
- 2,173 spots since 2015 (#2,684 → #4,857)
- Biggest jump: 410 spots in 2007 (#1,387 → #977)
- Biggest drop: 688 spots in 2008 (#977 → #1,665)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2007 at #977 (201 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2007
- Highest: 1 in 10,325 boys born in 2007 were named Kelan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 85,404 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.4% of all boys named Kelan (695) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 14 | #2,969 (1956) | #3,294 |
| 1960s | 29 | #2,760 (1967) | #3,287 |
| 1970s | 48 | #3,120 (1974) | #4,315 |
| 1980s | 147 | #2,596 (1982) | #3,295 |
| 1990s | 287 | #2,396 (1997) | #2,615 |
| 2000s | 695 | #977 (2007) | #2,278 |
| 2010s | 459 | #2,037 (2010) | #2,776 |
| 2020s | 131 | #3,570 (2020) | #4,648 |
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.
Kelan in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 22,176 of them was named Kelan, which outranked 88.6% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,655Patricio93
- #1,655Tyquan93
- #1,655Wallace93
- #1,665Kelan92
- #1,665Chester92
- #1,665Cordae92
- #1,665Deontae92
- #1,679Angus91
- #1,679Edson91
- #1,679Hadi91
Tied with 13 names at #1,665; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.