Kellen
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #1,069 for boys in 2025, 202 births
Given to boys 93.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 932 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 17,042since 1954
Kellen 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #1,069 | 202 |
| 2024 | — | #1,031 | 216 | |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #919 | 251 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #830 | 299 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #863 | 271 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #796 | 291 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #769 | 308 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #696 | 347 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #622 | 420 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | #611 | 440 |
| 2015 | #5,288 | 25 | #506 | 569 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #444 | 672 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | #394 | 759 |
| 2012 | #5,895 | 22 | #337 | 932 |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 | #344 | 880 |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | #359 | 840 |
| 2009 | #5,709 | 24 | #431 | 653 |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 | #447 | 628 |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 | #511 | 519 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 | #524 | 487 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #521 | 471 |
| 2004 | #3,819 | 37 | #513 | 475 |
| 2003 | #4,307 | 30 | #572 | 387 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | #678 | 270 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #723 | 242 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | #671 | 266 |
| 1999 | #4,445 | 25 | #731 | 223 |
| 1998 | #3,914 | 29 | #795 | 192 |
| 1997 | #4,125 | 26 | #778 | 190 |
| 1996 | #3,149 | 37 | #738 | 207 |
| 1995 | #2,977 | 39 | #702 | 227 |
| 1994 | #2,752 | 44 | #831 | 164 |
| 1993 | #2,825 | 42 | #776 | 184 |
| 1992 | #2,869 | 41 | #798 | 171 |
| 1991 | #2,935 | 39 | #740 | 189 |
| 1990 | #3,813 | 27 | #658 | 234 |
| 1989 | #2,769 | 40 | #662 | 229 |
| 1988 | #2,051 | 57 | #535 | 290 |
| 1987 | #2,044 | 54 | #521 | 294 |
| 1986 | #2,079 | 51 | #491 | 318 |
| 1985 | #2,440 | 40 | #453 | 355 |
| 1984 | #3,329 | 25 | #453 | 342 |
| 1983 | #2,659 | 33 | #418 | 383 |
| 1982 | #2,414 | 40 | #412 | 408 |
| 1981 | #2,847 | 31 | #616 | 191 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | #1,432 | 44 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #5,464 | 5 |
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| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | — | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | #3,249 | 7 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 | #3,930 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 | #3,318 | 7 |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #4,546 | 9 | #3,356 | 7 |
| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,821 | 9 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,033 | 8 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,494 | 11 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kellen! It came in at #3,827, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1965, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kellen
- 38 spots since 2024 (#1,031 → #1,069)
- 273 spots since 2020 (#796 → #1,069)
- 563 spots since 2015 (#506 → #1,069)
- Biggest jump: 816 spots in 1981 (#1,432 → #616)
- Biggest drop: 127 spots in 1989 (#535 → #662)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 2012 at #337 (932 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1981–2023
- Highest: 1 in 2,035 boys born in 2012 were named Kellen (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,456 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 36.2% of all boys named Kellen (6,167) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1976, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 43 | #2,494 (1957) | #3,334 |
| 1960s | 43 | #2,685 (1960) | #3,307 |
| 1970s | 26 | #3,569 (1979) | #5,163 |
| 1980s | 2,854 | #412 (1982) | #599 |
| 1990s | 1,981 | #658 (1990) | #755 |
| 2000s | 4,398 | #431 (2009) | #559 |
| 2010s | 6,167 | #337 (2012) | #508 |
| 2020s | 1,530 | #796 (2020) | #918 |
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.
Kellen in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 53,808 of them was named Kellen, which outranked 76.7% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,774Valery32
- #2,774Wesley32
- #2,774Wynter32
- #2,847Kellen31
- #2,847Aleesha31
- #2,847Alica31
- #2,847Allisha31
- #2,928Alethia30
- #2,928Aria30
- #2,928Armida30
Tied with 80 names at #2,847; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 9,378 of them was named Kellen, which outranked 91.5% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).