Caelan
Caelan is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 43 boys were given it in 2025 (#13,504 among girls’ names and #2,891 among boys’, #5,687 among all names counting both); 3,135 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,090 Americans named Caelan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caelan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caelan?
#2,891 among boys’ names, 2025
Caelan fell from #2,412 in 2015 to #2,891 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 27.7 to 25.2 per million.
174 babies in 2001, the peak
Caelan peaked in 2001, when 174 babies were given it (135 boys, #1,066 among boys’ names). The 49 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 28% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,504 | 43 | #2,891 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 35 | #3,340 | |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,364 | 61 | #2,292 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,733 | 70 | #2,119 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 56 | #2,415 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,553 | 47 | #2,663 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,558 | 68 | #2,111 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,705 | 56 | #2,355 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,519 | 61 | #2,192 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,986 | 52 | #2,440 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #14,838 | 53 | #2,412 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,728 | 62 | #2,175 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,214 | 67 | #2,025 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,198 | 61 | #2,173 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,765 | 89 | #1,677 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,696 | 94 | #1,656 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,119 | 93 | #1,688 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,600 | 121 | #1,400 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,392 | 67 | #2,053 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,139 | 72 | #1,879 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,499 | 53 | #2,240 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,748 | 97 | #1,440 |
| 2003 | 75 | #2,261 | 76 | #1,644 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,893 | 119 | #1,175 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,422 | 135 | #1,066 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,004 | 101 | #1,280 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,231 | 105 | #1,210 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,162 | 104 | #1,188 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,033 | 110 | #1,131 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,197 | 69 | #1,463 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,678 | 69 | #1,429 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,170 | 43 | #1,925 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,771 | 26 | #2,708 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 35 | #2,175 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,702 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,254 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Caelan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,135 Americans recorded as Caelan, 21% are girls and 79% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Caelan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caelan, and how old are they?
3,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,135 Americans ever recorded as Caelan. The median Caelan alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 2,562 people named Caelan (626 women and girls, 1,936 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,781 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 282 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,980 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 827 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Caelan born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,245 | 0.7× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Caelan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,729 babies since 1880, Caelan is the third most given (9.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 2,815 babies (1.7%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Caelan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Caelan and names like it
- Compare Caelan and CallanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCaelan peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caelan since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Caelan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caelan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.