Kahlan
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to girls 94.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 155 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,484since 1997
Kahlan 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 | #9,457 | 10 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #4,648 | 28 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #4,260 | 33 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #3,918 | 37 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #2,835 | 59 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,966 | 56 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,431 | 75 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,304 | 80 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,032 | 95 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,685 | 125 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,540 | 142 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,456 | 155 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #1,979 | 105 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,773 | 65 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,247 | 52 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,265 | 34 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,404 | 44 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,444 | 43 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,131 | 47 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,730 | 35 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | — | |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 | — | |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | #9,265 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kahlan! It came in at #7,283, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2025, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
Where Kahlan is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#733 · 1 in 3,581
- Georgia#1,050 · 1 in 5,914
- Ohio#1,225 · 1 in 8,596
- North Carolina#1,362 · 1 in 8,791
- Pennsylvania#1,391 · 1 in 10,551
Best ever in a state: #554 in Iowa, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #733 | 5 | 1 in 3,581 |
| Georgia | #1,050 | 8 | 1 in 5,914 |
| Ohio | #1,225 | 6 | 1 in 8,596 |
| North Carolina | #1,362 | 5 | 1 in 8,791 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,391 | 5 | 1 in 10,551 |
| New York | #1,490 | 9 | 1 in 10,252 |
| Florida | #1,718 | 6 | 1 in 13,271 |
| California | #2,328 | 9 | 1 in 23,231 |
| Texas | #2,828 | 6 | 1 in 26,386 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Kahlan
- 3,063 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #9,457)
- 4,809 spots since 2020 (#4,648 → #9,457)
- 7,026 spots since 2015 (#2,431 → #9,457)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2010 at #1,456 (155 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,468 girls born in 2010 were named Kahlan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 57.7% of all girls named Kahlan (857) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1996, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 45 | #5,424 (1999) | #6,475 |
| 2000s | 477 | #1,979 (2009) | #3,506 |
| 2010s | 857 | #1,456 (2010) | #2,543 |
| 2020s | 105 | #4,648 (2020) | #6,985 |
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.
Kahlan in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 14,088 of them was named Kahlan, which outranked 91.4% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,680Melisa126
- #1,680Nyomi126
- #1,680Romina126
- #1,685Kahlan125
- #1,685Beverly125
- #1,685Jazzlynn125
- #1,685Jolee125
- #1,690Calleigh124
- #1,690Cleo124
- #1,690Eleni124
Tied with 4 names at #1,685; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.