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
- 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
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 | #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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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 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Virginia#1,008 · 1 in 8,147
- California#1,869 · 1 in 25,814
Best ever in a state: #440 in Utah, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #1,008 | 5 | 1 in 8,147 |
| California | #1,869 | 8 | 1 in 25,814 |
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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
- 451 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #2,884)
- 226 spots since 2020 (#2,658 → #2,884)
- 472 spots since 2015 (#2,412 → #2,884)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2001 at #1,068 (135 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 37.8% of all boys named Caelan (934) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1991, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Caelan in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 141,756 of them was named Caelan, which outranked 52.5% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,146Zonnique13
- #8,146Zuriyah13
- #8,146Zyaira13
- #8,617Caelan12
- #8,617Aaila12
- #8,617Aalina12
- #8,617Aamilah12
- #9,151Aaima11
- #9,151Aalyah11
- #9,151Abbigayle11
Tied with 533 names at #8,617; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 32,431 of them was named Caelan, which outranked 83.3% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,325Rhyatt57
- #2,325Tim57
- #2,325Viraaj57
- #2,355Caelan56
- #2,355Antoni56
- #2,355Daemon56
- #2,355Eldon56
- #2,385Abhinav55
- #2,385Abiel55
- #2,385Arhaan55
Tied with 29 names at #2,355; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.