Kellan

Where Kellan comes from

The dictionaries list Kellan as a given name — a male given name from Irish — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Irish
Along the way
  1. 1958
    First appearance
    #3,559 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1980
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1985
    Kellan Lutz born
    American actor and model
  4. 1989
    Kellan Lain born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  5. 2011
    Peak, #363
    819 babies named Kellan — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #769.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Irish.
Namesakes
  • Kellan Lutz · American actor and model, born 1985
  • Kellan Lain · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1989
  • Kellan Grady · American basketball player, born 1997

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.