Kallen

#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #1,297 for boys in 2025, 150 births
Given to boys 88.4% of the time

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Peak · boys
2014 · 159 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,743
since 1963

Kallen over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201963peak #6,163, 1997peak #1,174, 2014girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,9178#1,297150
2024#8,94611#1,472123
2023#13,4626#1,360138
2022#15,3065#1,330141
2021#13,4646#1,273149
2020#10,2509#1,262145
2019#9,73610#1,413124
2018#15,6825#1,513113
2017#8,29913#1,365130
2016#12,8767#1,310138
2015#9,48111#1,239147
2014#11,9318#1,174159
2013#13,1507#1,468112
2012#13,4837#1,376122
2011#9,72311#1,264136
2010#14,9596#1,415117
2009#15,2426#1,83980
2008#12,5798#2,58348
2007#10,12911#2,30456
2006#13,6067#2,57846
2005#10,12810#3,38929
2004#9,89210#3,07432
2003#9,67110#3,62624
2002#10,2469#2,81733
2001#7,72413#3,84221
2000#13,1546#2,92230
1999#8,80510#2,93928
1998#8,58410#4,41315
1997#6,16315#3,35121
1996#7,57411#4,02216
1995#8,07910#4,50813
1994#13,4305#4,80312
1993#8,05210#5,36010
1992#8,7349—
1991#9,3368#7,2716
1990#6,86712#3,30918
1989#8,0379#6,2297
1988#10,3866#5,2008
1987#9,8256#4,5739
1986#8,5237#4,13010
1985#8,3187#5,7856
1984—#4,9737
1983#10,2755—
1982—#4,5938
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First appearance
1963

The first year at least five boys were named Kallen! It came in at #3,646, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1964–1981, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Kallen is popular in 1963

No state had 5 or more boys named Kallen in 1963, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Kallen
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 175 spots since 2024 (#1,472 → #1,297)
  • 35 spots since 2020 (#1,262 → #1,297)
  • 58 spots since 2015 (#1,239 → #1,297)
Rise & fade · boys
51 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1963
  • Peaked 2014 at #1,174 (159 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 11,387
  • Highest: 1 in 11,387 boys born in 2025 were named Kallen (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #1,174 in 2014, was only 1 in 12,081 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 47.3% of all boys named Kallen (1,298) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1994
  • Mostly girls until 1993, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s6#3,646 (1963)#3,646
1970s0——
1980s55#4,130 (1986)#5,069
1990s139#2,939 (1999)#4,442
2000s399#1,839 (2009)#2,897
2010s1,298#1,174 (2014)#1,354
2020s846#1,262 (2020)#1,332

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.

Kallen in 1963

boys
#3,646
6 births · 1 in 338,513 boys

Top boys' names in 1963

  1. #1Michael83,771
  2. #2John78,636
  3. #3David78,444
  4. #4James71,294
  5. #5Robert70,007
  6. #6Mark49,342
  7. #7William44,453
  8. #8Richard40,772
  9. #9Thomas35,490
  10. #10Jeffrey31,701
  11. #3,646Kallen6
More about 1963

boys

2,031,078 boys got a published name in 1963; 1 in 338,513 of them was named Kallen, which outranked 21.1% of the 4,621 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kallen
  1. #3,318Yvette7
  2. #3,318Zvi7
  3. #3,318Zygmunt7
  4. #3,646Kallen6
  5. #3,646Abelino6
  6. #3,646Abran6
  7. #3,646Ainsley6
  8. #4,048Abbott5
  9. #4,048Abie5
  10. #4,048Abron5

Tied with 401 names at #3,646; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1962
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,551Tal#2,364 → #813
  2. ↑ 1,141Jaimie#1,962 → #821
  3. ↑ 540Stoney#1,038 → #498
  4. ↑ 364Pamela#1,311 → #947
  5. ↑ 331Giovanni#1,242 → #911
Fallers
  1. ↓ 324Olin#871 → #1,195
  2. ↓ 295Enoch#984 → #1,279
  3. ↓ 285Rand#953 → #1,238
  4. ↓ 283Vernell#996 → #1,279
  5. ↓ 269Bentley#926 → #1,195

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1963 →