Kaelin
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Given to girls 74.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1995 · 160 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,737since 1981
Kaelin 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #5,045 | 26 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #4,083 | 36 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #4,069 | 36 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #3,925 | 38 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | #3,166 | 51 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #3,314 | 49 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #2,989 | 57 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #2,386 | 79 | #6,359 | 13 |
| 2009 | #1,822 | 118 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #1,800 | 121 | #4,267 | 23 |
| 2007 | #1,510 | 153 | #3,511 | 30 |
| 2006 | #1,436 | 157 | #3,451 | 30 |
| 2005 | #1,173 | 196 | #3,528 | 27 |
| 2004 | #1,533 | 130 | #3,014 | 33 |
| 2003 | #1,395 | 142 | #3,280 | 28 |
| 2002 | #2,199 | 75 | #2,882 | 32 |
| 2001 | #1,660 | 109 | #3,228 | 27 |
| 2000 | #1,885 | 90 | #3,150 | 27 |
| 1999 | #1,940 | 81 | #2,462 | 36 |
| 1998 | #1,958 | 77 | #2,199 | 41 |
| 1997 | #1,400 | 120 | #2,024 | 44 |
| 1996 | #1,399 | 118 | #1,533 | 65 |
| 1995 | #1,107 | 160 | #1,010 | 121 |
| 1994 | #1,675 | 89 | #1,495 | 63 |
| 1993 | #3,052 | 38 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #2,687 | 45 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #3,301 | 33 | #2,828 | 23 |
| 1990 | #3,297 | 33 | #3,779 | 15 |
| 1989 | #2,810 | 39 | #3,618 | 15 |
| 1988 | #3,039 | 33 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #3,424 | 26 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #4,186 | 19 | — | |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | — | |
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First appearance
1981
The first year at least five girls were named Kaelin! It came in at #5,254, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2024–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaelin is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Kaelin in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kaelin
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 7,730 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #14,942)
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 1995 at #1,107 (160 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 9,428
- Highest: 1 in 9,428 girls born in 2005 were named Kaelin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,107 in 1995, was only 1 in 10,991 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 47.2% of all girls named Kaelin (1,291) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 184 | #2,810 (1989) | #4,369 |
| 1990s | 794 | #1,107 (1995) | #2,182 |
| 2000s | 1,291 | #1,173 (2005) | #1,641 |
| 2010s | 408 | #2,386 (2010) | #4,218 |
| 2020s | 60 | #7,212 (2020) | #9,173 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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