Caelen — #6995 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Caelen

The Social Security Administration has registered 536 babies named Caelen between 1993 and 2024, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Caelen currently holds the #6995 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 39 babies received it in a single year. Caelen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 67 additional births since 1998.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Caelen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 242 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Caelen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Caelen in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Caelen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 536 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.