Kailan
- #11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- #3,848 for boys in 2025, 28 births
- Given to boys 53.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 45 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 599since 1990
Kailan 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 | #11,932 | 7 | #3,848 | 28 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #2,835 | 45 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #2,952 | 42 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #2,830 | 45 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #4,247 | 24 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #4,275 | 23 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #3,716 | 29 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #4,476 | 22 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #4,935 | 19 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #6,977 | 17 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | #4,263 | 23 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #5,659 | 15 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | #3,944 | 39 | #4,922 | 19 |
| 2008 | #4,761 | 31 | #5,249 | 17 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #4,421 | 19 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | #5,124 | 11 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | — | |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | — | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #7,178 | 6 |
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First appearance
1990
The first year at least five boys were named Kailan! It came in at #7,178, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1992–1994, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kailan is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Kailan in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kailan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 1,013 spots since 2024 (#2,835 → #3,848)
- 427 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #3,848)
- 1,210 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #3,848)
Rise & fade · boys
32 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2022 at #2,830 (45 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
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 38,286
- Highest: 1 in 38,286 boys born in 2024 were named Kailan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,003 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,830 in 2022, was only 1 in 38,800 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 34.6% of all boys named Kailan (207) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2013
- Mostly girls until 2012, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 70 | #5,124 (1995) | #6,334 |
| 2000s | 131 | #4,421 (2004) | #6,332 |
| 2010s | 191 | #3,716 (2019) | #4,984 |
| 2020s | 207 | #2,830 (2022) | #3,498 |
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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