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 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Hampshire#155 · 1 in 574
- Montana#241 · 1 in 804
- Massachusetts#245 · 1 in 1,344
- Iowa#260 · 1 in 1,052
- Hawaii#275 · 1 in 901
Best ever in a state: #134 in Montana, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | #155 | 8 | 1 in 574 |
| Montana | #241 | 5 | 1 in 804 |
| Massachusetts | #245 | 22 | 1 in 1,344 |
| Iowa | #260 | 15 | 1 in 1,052 |
| Hawaii | #275 | 5 | 1 in 901 |
| Minnesota | #279 | 23 | 1 in 1,234 |
| Virginia | #297 | 29 | 1 in 1,463 |
| Missouri | #304 | 22 | 1 in 1,436 |
| Pennsylvania | #315 | 35 | 1 in 1,709 |
| New Jersey | #319 | 24 | 1 in 1,733 |
| Oregon | #321 | 14 | 1 in 1,295 |
| West Virginia | #326 | 5 | 1 in 1,634 |
| Maryland | #329 | 17 | 1 in 1,636 |
| Washington | #332 | 24 | 1 in 1,532 |
| Wisconsin | #345 | 16 | 1 in 1,701 |
| Nebraska | #349 | 7 | 1 in 1,443 |
| New York | #357 | 50 | 1 in 2,057 |
| Indiana | #372 | 19 | 1 in 1,903 |
| Illinois | #374 | 33 | 1 in 2,012 |
| Ohio | #377 | 29 | 1 in 2,079 |
| North Carolina | #383 | 24 | 1 in 2,167 |
| Kansas | #390 | 9 | 1 in 1,759 |
| Arkansas | #397 | 8 | 1 in 1,830 |
| Colorado | #397 | 15 | 1 in 1,845 |
| New Mexico | #398 | 5 | 1 in 1,772 |
| Utah | #420 | 11 | 1 in 1,932 |
| Florida | #427 | 40 | 1 in 2,459 |
| Oklahoma | #446 | 10 | 1 in 2,077 |
| Connecticut | #447 | 5 | 1 in 2,881 |
| Arizona | #458 | 14 | 1 in 2,640 |
| Louisiana | #462 | 11 | 1 in 2,316 |
| Mississippi | #471 | 6 | 1 in 2,312 |
| California | #472 | 71 | 1 in 3,187 |
| Tennessee | #477 | 14 | 1 in 2,610 |
| Michigan | #482 | 17 | 1 in 2,810 |
| Kentucky | #493 | 7 | 1 in 3,144 |
| Georgia | #500 | 19 | 1 in 2,892 |
| South Carolina | #529 | 7 | 1 in 3,073 |
| Texas | #591 | 46 | 1 in 4,089 |
| Alabama | #618 | 6 | 1 in 3,864 |
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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 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 148,758 of them was named Kellan, which outranked 53.3% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,447Zita13
- #8,447Ziyan13
- #8,447Zoraida13
- #8,931Kellan12
- #8,931Aahna12
- #8,931Aaima12
- #8,931Aalijah12
- #9,481Aaisha11
- #9,481Aalaiyah11
- #9,481Aaleah11
Tied with 549 names at #8,931; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 2,470 of them was named Kellan, which outranked 97.2% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.