Kaelan — #3730 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kaelan

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,501 babies named Kaelan between 1987 and 2024, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kaelan currently holds the #3730 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 91 babies received it in a single year. Kaelan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 431 additional births since 1987.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaelan performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 591 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kaelan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 129 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaelan in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaelan 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 1,501 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.