Caelan
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- #2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
- Given to boys 78.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 135 births
- Debut · boys
- 35 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,470since 1992
Caelan over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #13,208 | 6 | #2,884 | 43 |
| 2024 | — | #3,335 | 35 | |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #2,290 | 61 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #2,117 | 70 |
| 2021 | — | #2,410 | 56 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #2,658 | 47 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #2,110 | 68 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #2,355 | 56 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #2,186 | 61 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #2,437 | 52 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #2,412 | 53 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | #2,175 | 62 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | #2,021 | 67 |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 | #2,172 | 61 |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 | #1,675 | 89 |
| 2010 | #6,641 | 19 | #1,652 | 94 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 | #1,688 | 93 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #1,399 | 121 |
| 2007 | #4,380 | 34 | #2,051 | 67 |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 | #1,877 | 72 |
| 2005 | #4,487 | 30 | #2,237 | 53 |
| 2004 | #2,742 | 59 | #1,440 | 97 |
| 2003 | #2,260 | 75 | #1,646 | 76 |
| 2002 | #2,888 | 51 | #1,177 | 119 |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 | #1,068 | 135 |
| 2000 | #4,981 | 23 | #1,282 | 101 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 | #1,212 | 105 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | #1,189 | 104 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #1,134 | 110 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | #1,465 | 69 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #1,430 | 69 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #1,927 | 43 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #2,697 | 26 |
| 1992 | — | #2,174 | 35 | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | — | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1992
The first year at least five boys were named Caelan! It came in at #2,174, and was given to 35 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1992–1993, when fewer than 36 boys a year got the name.
Where Caelan is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #2,203 | 6 | 1 in 29,246 |
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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 Caelan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 451 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #2,884)
- 226 spots since 2020 (#2,658 → #2,884)
Rise & fade · boys
9 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2001 at #1,068 (135 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 14,392
- Highest: 1 in 14,392 boys born in 2001 were named Caelan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 37.8% of all boys named Caelan (934) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1992
- Mostly girls until 1991, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1990s | 561 | #1,134 (1997) | #1,654 |
| 2000s | 934 | #1,068 (2001) | #1,587 |
| 2010s | 663 | #1,652 (2010) | #2,120 |
| 2020s | 312 | #2,117 (2022) | #2,616 |
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.
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