Kellan
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #1,030 for boys in 2025, 215 births
Given to boys 95.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 819 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 10,752since 1958
Kellan over time
Rank among boys' names. Kellan has never cracked the top 300 here.
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 | #10,917 | 8 | #1,030 | 215 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #919 | 252 |
| 2023 | — | #905 | 257 | |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #853 | 284 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #834 | 285 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #688 | 370 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #769 | 308 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #615 | 438 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #551 | 503 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #499 | 601 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 | #398 | 776 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #384 | 809 |
| 2013 | #5,013 | 27 | #368 | 843 |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 | #373 | 813 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 | #363 | 819 |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 | #365 | 807 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | #623 | 400 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 | #1,133 | 161 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | #883 | 228 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 | #1,294 | 128 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #1,191 | 134 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | #1,203 | 127 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #1,348 | 101 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #1,483 | 85 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #1,617 | 73 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 | #1,782 | 61 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #1,763 | 57 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | #1,791 | 56 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #2,024 | 44 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | #2,017 | 43 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | #2,055 | 40 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #1,868 | 45 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #1,907 | 43 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #1,598 | 55 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #1,867 | 42 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | #1,730 | 46 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #1,567 | 51 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #1,849 | 36 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #1,425 | 51 |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 | #1,174 | 65 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #1,429 | 47 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | #1,723 | 33 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | #1,448 | 43 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | #1,514 | 41 |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | #2,338 | 21 |
| 1980 | — | #4,134 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kellan! It came in at #3,559, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1979, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Kellan is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Montana#235 · 1 in 800
- Washington#265 · 1 in 1,232
- Minnesota#301 · 1 in 1,537
- Idaho#320 · 1 in 1,252
- Oregon#376 · 1 in 1,932
Best ever in a state: #134 in Montana, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | #235 | 5 | 1 in 800 |
| Washington | #265 | 30 | 1 in 1,232 |
| Minnesota | #301 | 19 | 1 in 1,537 |
| Idaho | #320 | 7 | 1 in 1,252 |
| Oregon | #376 | 10 | 1 in 1,932 |
| Oklahoma | #421 | 10 | 1 in 2,145 |
| Utah | #429 | 10 | 1 in 2,299 |
| Virginia | #438 | 15 | 1 in 2,811 |
| Wisconsin | #442 | 10 | 1 in 2,870 |
| Colorado | #483 | 10 | 1 in 2,875 |
| Massachusetts | #489 | 8 | 1 in 3,882 |
| Maryland | #492 | 9 | 1 in 3,195 |
| North Carolina | #505 | 16 | 1 in 3,365 |
| Ohio | #516 | 17 | 1 in 3,685 |
| Kentucky | #533 | 6 | 1 in 3,905 |
| Missouri | #550 | 9 | 1 in 3,718 |
| Arizona | #562 | 10 | 1 in 3,993 |
| Pennsylvania | #641 | 12 | 1 in 5,177 |
| Georgia | #658 | 13 | 1 in 4,540 |
| Florida | #675 | 19 | 1 in 5,016 |
| New York | #681 | 21 | 1 in 5,129 |
| Indiana | #695 | 7 | 1 in 5,341 |
| California | #719 | 36 | 1 in 6,726 |
| Michigan | #829 | 7 | 1 in 7,051 |
| Illinois | #873 | 10 | 1 in 7,255 |
| Texas | #951 | 20 | 1 in 9,323 |
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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 Kellan
- 111 spots since 2024 (#919 → #1,030)
- 342 spots since 2020 (#688 → #1,030)
- 632 spots since 2015 (#398 → #1,030)
- Biggest jump: 510 spots in 2009 (#1,133 → #623)
- Biggest drop: 250 spots in 2008 (#883 → #1,133)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 2011 at #363 (819 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2009–2024
- Highest: 1 in 2,244 boys born in 2013 were named Kellan (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,945 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #363 in 2011, was only 1 in 2,319 (0.04%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 62.5% of all boys named Kellan (6,717) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 6 | #3,559 (1958) | #3,559 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 397 | #1,174 (1986) | #1,860 |
| 1990s | 471 | #1,598 (1992) | #1,862 |
| 2000s | 1,498 | #623 (2009) | #1,256 |
| 2010s | 6,717 | #363 (2011) | #469 |
| 2020s | 1,663 | #688 (2020) | #872 |
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.
Kellan in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 96,690 of them was named Kellan, which outranked 66.3% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,544Zitlali20
- #6,544Zori20
- #6,544Zyria20
- #6,811Kellan19
- #6,811Abrar19
- #6,811Abri19
- #6,811Adama19
- #7,066Aadhya18
- #7,066Abagale18
- #7,066Abiageal18
Tied with 254 names at #6,811; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 4,959 of them was named Kellan, which outranked 95.7% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).