Kalen

Where Kalen comes from

Kalen hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1959
    First appearance
    #3,037 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1974
    Kalen DeBoer born
    American football player and coach
  3. 1976
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1983
    Kalen Chase born
    American musician, percussionist and guitarist
  5. 1998
    Peak, #858
    169 babies named Kalen — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,733.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kalen DeBoer · American football player and coach, born 1974
  • Kalen Chase · American musician, percussionist and guitarist, born 1983
  • Kalen Ryden · American soccer player, born 1991

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.