Kalen
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #2,077 for boys in 2025, 71 births
Given to boys 75.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 169 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,629since 1959
Kalen 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #2,077 | 71 |
| 2024 | — | #2,042 | 74 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,416 | 56 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #1,892 | 83 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #1,645 | 101 |
| 2020 | — | #2,139 | 65 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,868 | 80 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #2,101 | 67 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #2,110 | 66 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | #2,112 | 66 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | #1,873 | 78 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 | #1,733 | 84 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 | #1,742 | 86 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 | #1,510 | 106 |
| 2010 | #6,641 | 19 | #1,358 | 125 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #1,257 | 140 |
| 2008 | #4,268 | 36 | #1,380 | 123 |
| 2007 | #4,475 | 33 | #1,197 | 147 |
| 2006 | #3,992 | 37 | #1,367 | 118 |
| 2005 | #3,404 | 44 | #1,282 | 120 |
| 2004 | #4,601 | 29 | #1,235 | 122 |
| 2003 | #3,590 | 39 | #1,076 | 144 |
| 2002 | #2,888 | 51 | #1,204 | 115 |
| 2001 | #2,963 | 48 | #1,080 | 133 |
| 2000 | #2,740 | 53 | #1,152 | 120 |
| 1999 | #2,567 | 55 | #1,100 | 121 |
| 1998 | #2,429 | 57 | #858 | 169 |
| 1997 | #2,481 | 52 | #1,140 | 109 |
| 1996 | #2,630 | 47 | #1,093 | 110 |
| 1995 | #2,788 | 43 | #935 | 141 |
| 1994 | #2,124 | 64 | #1,009 | 121 |
| 1993 | #2,195 | 60 | #933 | 133 |
| 1992 | #2,733 | 44 | #936 | 130 |
| 1991 | #2,620 | 46 | #1,282 | 76 |
| 1990 | #3,227 | 34 | #1,037 | 104 |
| 1989 | #2,769 | 40 | #1,030 | 100 |
| 1988 | #2,447 | 44 | #994 | 95 |
| 1987 | #2,852 | 34 | #914 | 106 |
| 1986 | #3,054 | 30 | #971 | 89 |
| 1985 | #3,517 | 24 | #998 | 83 |
| 1984 | #3,726 | 21 | #1,166 | 61 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 | #1,314 | 50 |
| 1982 | #4,025 | 19 | #1,293 | 52 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | #1,577 | 38 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #1,808 | 31 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #2,669 | 17 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #2,134 | 22 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #3,386 | 11 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #2,826 | 14 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 | — | |
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | #2,955 | 23 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | #2,907 | 9 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 | #2,780 | 9 |
| 1964 | — | #2,409 | 12 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 | #3,037 | 8 |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kalen! It came in at #3,037, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Kalen is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alaska#172 · 1 in 678
- Arkansas#423 · 1 in 2,872
- Missouri#513 · 1 in 4,877
- California#956 · 1 in 15,113
- Florida#1,239 · 1 in 17,368
Best ever in a state: #142 in Hawaii, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | #172 | 5 | 1 in 678 |
| Arkansas | #423 | 5 | 1 in 2,872 |
| Missouri | #513 | 7 | 1 in 4,877 |
| California | #956 | 16 | 1 in 15,113 |
| Florida | #1,239 | 5 | 1 in 17,368 |
| Texas | #1,400 | 7 | 1 in 23,521 |
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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 Kalen
- 35 spots since 2024 (#2,042 → #2,077)
- 62 spots since 2020 (#2,139 → #2,077)
- 35 spots since 2015 (#2,112 → #2,077)
- Biggest jump: 346 spots in 1992 (#1,282 → #936)
- Biggest drop: 242 spots in 1999 (#858 → #1,100)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1998 at #858 (169 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1985–1988
- Highest: 1 in 11,310 boys born in 1998 were named Kalen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,057 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.7% of all boys named Kalen (1,282) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1975, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 8 | #3,037 (1959) | #3,037 |
| 1960s | 61 | #2,409 (1964) | #3,254 |
| 1970s | 99 | #2,134 (1978) | #3,173 |
| 1980s | 705 | #914 (1987) | #1,207 |
| 1990s | 1,214 | #858 (1998) | #1,032 |
| 2000s | 1,282 | #1,076 (2003) | #1,223 |
| 2010s | 810 | #1,358 (2010) | #1,886 |
| 2020s | 450 | #1,645 (2021) | #2,035 |
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.
Kalen in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 32,251 of them was named Kalen, which outranked 84.9% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,527Tressa56
- #2,527Violeta56
- #2,527Yara56
- #2,567Kalen55
- #2,567Abigael55
- #2,567Anthony55
- #2,567Arriana55
- #2,610Alba54
- #2,610Aleisha54
- #2,610Amiah54
Tied with 42 names at #2,567; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 15,869 of them was named Kalen, which outranked 90.5% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,095Galen122
- #1,095Jamaal122
- #1,095London122
- #1,100Kalen121
- #1,100Aden121
- #1,100Daylon121
- #1,100Erin121
- #1,106Dajuan120
- #1,106Dejon120
- #1,106Jajuan120
Tied with 5 names at #1,100; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.